Alberta has experienced a decline in student scores in reading, science and math.
alberta schools
July 3, 2018
2:42PM
In 2014/15, B.C. spent $11,216 per public school student compared to $13,155 in Alberta.
October 19, 2017
9:12AM
Only 17 of Alberta’s 96 independent schools are “elite.”
October 19, 2017
1:00AM
September 6, 2017
12:21PM
Spending on public schools in Alberta increased 59.7 per cent.
September 14, 2016
2:16PM
Per student spending in public schools in Alberta increased 25.4 per cent between 2004-05 and 2013-14.
September 24, 2015
11:34AM
In some quarters, it is taken as a given that Alberta’s schools are underfunded. Critics cite rising class sizes and slipping international test scores (in some areas) as evidence that more money is needed.
January 12, 2012
2:00AM
The Alberta government is about to do something that's going to hurt kids across the province.
Thomas Lukaszuk, Alberta's education minister, says he will end the province-wide elementary school achievement tests "or PATs as they are known" that have been written each year for decades by virtually all of the province's Grade 3 and Grade 6 students.