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24 Oct 2017 Reviewing the school board election results in Alberta

Posted at 11:35h in Education, Politics 0 Comments
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Donna Trimble Alberta residents went to the polls last week in municipal and school board elections. The group "Parents for Choice in Education" had published an online assessment of a number of public and Catholic school board candidates in advance of the election, particularly with respect to where they stood on things such as parental notification and parental rights. Executive Director Donna Trimble says they were able to list more than 200 trustees in 16 regions across Alberta in their online “vote wisely” voter’s guide, and they’re very pleased with the...

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17 Oct 2017 Alberta government threatens to release private school anti-bullying policies

Posted at 13:00h in Education 0 Comments
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Ed Hoogerdyk, Principal, Tyndale Christian School The Alberta government is poised to release a list of anti-bullying policies submitted by private and Christian schools last year in response to Bill 10. The umbrella group representing those schools is opposing that release. Ed Hoogerdyk is the principal of Tyndale Christian School in Calgary and he says the Freedom of Information request for the policies is premature, because more than a year after the policies were submitted to the Alberta Ministry of Education, there has been no response as to whether any of...

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10 Oct 2017 LN Feature: Protecting kids from their parents

Posted at 06:00h in Bills and Motions, Education, Gender and Sexuality 0 Comments
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David Eggen, Alberta Minister of Education Keith Penner, Principal of Living Waters Christian Academy There's a showdown looming in Alberta between the government and parents who choose not to send their children to public schools. Last week, Education Minister David Eggen put forward a plan to introduce a bill that would make it a crime for all schools - including private, independent, and Christian Schools - to communicate with parents if children in those schools decide to join so-called "Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs", or if those children admit to struggling with gender identity...

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03 Oct 2017 David Eggen at it again: more challenges for Alberta Christian Schools

Posted at 12:43h in Education, Gender and Sexuality 1 Comment
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Last week Education Minister David Eggen once again came out swinging against Albertan parents and Christian schools, promising that the provincial government will be introducing new legislation that will force all Alberta schools that receive public money to have a code of conduct in place that singles out protection for students on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation. The legislation will also require school policies to make it clear that students have a “right” to establish gay-straight alliance clubs and would also make it illegal for...

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19 Sep 2017 Parental Rights

Posted at 06:00h in Education 0 Comments
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Theresa Ng The Edmonton Public School Board has backed off a motion that would have forbidden staff from disclosing to anyone - including parents - the names of children who chose to participate in Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs. Theresa Ng, who blogs at Informed Albertans, says the motion pushed to implement the policy right across the province. Ng pointed out, “If (the) Edmonton Public (School Board) had passed this kind of a motion, then…the Minister of Education could say ‘Oh, well. We are being asked to do this.’ But I think it’s by...

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19 Sep 2017 Public School Board Elections

Posted at 06:00h in Education, Politics 0 Comments
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Donna Trimble The group Parents for Choice in Education is getting involved in the Alberta school board elections in a big way. Director Donna Trimble says they've put a questionnaire up on their website directed at all candidates running in public and Catholic school elections in the province. She says lots of other groups are being invited to review those questionnaire responses as they inform their constituents on education issues. Trimble admits even posting the questionnaire has raised some concerns in some quarters, but she says this isn't about being popular,...

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11 Jul 2017 Alberta school board to cut funding to Christian school

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Cornerstone Christian Academy parent, Deanna Margel A public school board in Camrose, Alberta, has served notice that it’s going to cut ties with a small Christian school due to a controversy over the use of Biblical texts in the school curriculum. Alberta has a provision where Christian schools can apply to operate under the authority and operation funding of public boards, and part of that system includes an express understanding that the schools will be able to continue to further their Christian worldview. But earlier this year, the Battle River School Division...

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11 Jul 2017 Another attempted closure of a flag display

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Mike Schouten, Director of Advocacy We Need a Law hosted a couple of pro-life flag displays over the Canada Day long weekend. One of them was in Ponoka, Alberta, and it involved a bit of controversy. As organizers were setting the display, crews from the town came along and removed a banner they had hung on a fence adjacent to the major highway that runs through the community. When organizers confronted the city workers over the action, they were told that the Town Hall had received complaints about the event. Once...

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20 Jun 2017 LN Feature: Censoring the Bible – State board tells Christian school to stop reading offensive verses

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- Controversy in Alberta, over what can and can't be taught at a Christian School that's operated by a Public School Board. It involves the Cornerstone Christian Academy in Kingman, southeast of Edmonton. The school falls under the authority of the Battle River School Division in Camrose. On the feature this week, we speak with Phillip Hills, the Executive Regional Director for the Association of Christian Schools International. The Cornerstone Christian Academy is an ACSI School. LN: Phil, by way of background, we have a lot of listeners across the country who...

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13 Jun 2017 Disappointment in Alberta education initiative

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Theresa Ng Wildrose Education Critic, Leela Aheer Last Monday was supposed to be a big day in the Alberta legislature. Theresa Ng, who writes the Informed Albertans blog, was due to present hundreds of letters to the government on the issue of sexually-explicit materials in that province's school system. But somehow, the letters were never actually presented. Ng says she had a commitment from Wildrose Education critic Leela Aheer to present the letters in the House. But when the time came to do that, Aheer instead tabled a list of names that had...

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