Premier Ed Stelmach announced today a total of 35 schools across Alberta will be built or modernized at an estimated cost of $550 million to cope with a student population expected to soar by about 100,000 new pupils before the end of the decade.
“This is part of a government investment to address growing student enrolments in some of the fastest growing communities in Alberta and responds to concerns we've been hearing for some time,” Stelmach said. “Our students are the future leaders of our province and deserve positive learning environments.”
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Hopefully there will be an adequate budget to run all these new schools and they won't be filled with classrooms of 35 students each.
ReplyDeleteI think by the time the schools are built they will be filled to capacity. Meanwhile our older buildings in major cities are being closed and sitting vacant or not being properly maintained because those dollars don't bring votes. There needs to be a restructuring of society's way of thinking about communities before any real significant changes can take place.
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