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Vulnerable students lag in middle school literacy
Intensive programs designed to help struggling readers are failing to maintain the literacy skills of vulnerable groups into junior high, data from Edmonton Public Schools shows. English language...
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Winterburn school may close grades 7,8 and 9, move students to Michael Phair...
As a new junior high school is constructed blocks away, Winterburn’s kindergarten-to-grade-9 school may lose its older students next year. Edmonton Public Schools’ superintendent is recommending the...
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Catholic schools superintendent's contract extended with narrow vote
The contract of the woman at the helm of Edmonton Catholic Schools has been extended for one year following a close vote and contentious meeting between trustees. However, the matter may not be closed...
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Editorial: Act now to ease looming high school space crunch
Children can be unpredictable in many ways but the fact they get bigger and older is a foreseeable outcome. Parents account for this by buying clothes a size up, trading in the sports car for a minivan...
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Trustee urges test to determine if Catholic schools' grads are 'disciples of...
An Edmonton Catholic school trustee has proposed spending $25,000 to study whether Catholic school graduates are “evangelized.” John Acheson proposed Tuesday that the board partner with St. Joseph...
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With high schools bursting at the seams, southwest residents frustrated to be...
Parents and politicians in southwest Edmonton are calling for more transparency in how the Alberta government decides which schools to build, and when. Especially after the Edmonton Public School Board...
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For sweltering students, new Edmonton francophone junior high is welcome news
Outfit selection is a daily adventure for the 270 students at Ecole Joseph-Moreau. Will they fry or freeze in their windowless classroom, as an ancient boiler churns heat through the patchwork maze of...
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Religion classes should be optional, Catholic school trustee says
Studying religion should be optional in Edmonton Catholic Schools, one trustee says. Marilyn Bergstra said it’s wrong for the school district to stop students from participating in graduation...
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School boards have until December to submit plans to tap $75-million...
Alberta school districts have until Dec. 15 to submit proposals on how to spend their portion of the province’s new $75-million classroom improvement fund, Education Minister David Eggen said Tuesday....
View ArticleLarge class sizes becoming unmanageable, says Alberta Teachers' Association...
A Grade 5 teacher has 36 students in his class. Fourteen of them need extra help. An Edmonton mom said 31 children are crammed into her son’s too-small kindergarten classroom. An Edmonton high school...
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