Alberta government orders school boards to remove 'public' from names, raising fears

Alberta government orders school boards to remove 'public' from names, raising fears

Some accuse UCP of trying to blur lines between public and private schools

Pamela Fieber · CBC News · 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/public-alberta-school-boards-1.5275561

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Alberta's UCP government has removed the word "public" from all Alberta school boards, affecting eight of 41 divisions across the province and leaving educators and administrators scrambling to figure out why.

Speculation on the reasons for the change, which took effect Sept. 1, ranges from it being just a minor detail to a more conservative alignment with Premier Jason Kenney's support for private schools and homeschooling, with public school funding threatened.

Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange clarified the issue on social media Monday.

"The previous system under the old School Act allowed for unequal treatment of school divisions. Previously, there was a patchwork of different types of school divisions with different powers. With the Education Act, we are creating a level playing field," LaGrange wrote in a post shared on both her Facebook and Twitter accounts. 



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