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June 10, 2011 David J. Climenhaga

David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Morinville public education update: Deal unlikely to please anyone, but buys time for Tories

Morinville: Historically Catholic, but not so Catholic any more. Below: Dave Hancock before he bought new spectacles.The great minds who run education in Alberta have reached a compromise they hope will make the bubbling issue of the complete lack of s…

June 6, 2011 daveberta

daveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: sturgeon school division to offer secular public education in morinville.

St. Jean Baptiste Church and Rectory are the most familiar buildings in the Town of Morinville. On March 6, 2011 I wrote about the situation in my hometown of Morinville, where due to local history and a weird quirk in Alberta’s Schools Act, the only “public schools” in the community are Catholic schools administrated by […]

May 31, 2011 daveberta

daveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: confused premier stelmach blames teachers for lay-offs.

Only months before he rides into his political sunset, a confused Premier Ed Stelmach blamed the Alberta Teachers’ Association for the school board budget shortfalls that may lead to the lay-off of over 1,000 teachers. Reacting to a protest that attracted hundreds of parents to the Legislature last weekend, Premier Stelmach told reporters that his […]

May 31, 2011 David J. Climenhaga

David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Build schools and lay off teachers? Hey, it’s the Alberta way!

New school. Lots of students. No teachers. What’s your problem? Below: Ed Stelmach, Dave Hancock.Does it seem odd to you that Alberta’s Conservative government would be spending more than half a billion dollars to build new schools at the same t…

May 25, 2011 daveberta

daveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: premier ed stelmach plays good cop as school boards reluctantly forced to play bad cop.

Have you heard this one before? Another round of province good cop, reluctant school board bad cop happened yesterday. Good cop Premier Ed Stelmach announced $550 million for new school construction and renovation just as reluctant bad cop Edmonton Public School Board became the latest school board to announce major staff layoffs (the board is […]