alberta schools

• 2 Sherwood Park schools move to online learning due to COVID-19 cases, isolation

  Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) is moving students at FR Hawthorne Junior High and Sherwood Heights Junior High to online learning for one week starting Monday.

  Education

  Apr 18
• COVID-19: Calgarians donate computers to help kids with return to online learning

  Low-income Calgary families got help with access to technology for returning to online learning.

  Education

  Apr 18
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• COVID-19: Students in northern Alberta town ready to return to school after quarantining

  Just over 100 people from three different schools in Athabasca, Alta., including students and about a dozen staff members, have been in quarantine for the last two weeks.

  Education

  Apr 16
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• Edmonton schools experience spike in COVID-19 cases: ‘It is concerning’

  The Edmonton Public School Board and the Edmonton Catholic School District say they are both closely monitoring a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.

  Education

  Apr 14
• Alberta government expanding COVID-19 school rapid testing program

  Four-hundred-forty-thousand rapid test kits will be distributed at the selected schools.

  Health

  Apr 10
• As Alberta’s number of COVID-19 cases increases, so does concern for schools

  Although there are a growing number of COVID-19 cases in Alberta, there are no plans to close schools or change how they are operated for now.

  Education

  Apr 7
• Parts of Alberta’s draft school curriculum plagiarized, academic finds

  Parts of Alberta's proposed curriculum for kindergarten and elementary schoolchildren were copied from other sources without credit, according to an expert in plagiarism.

  Education

  Apr 6
• COVID-19: Concern grows among parents variant cases rise in Alberta schools

  With the number of COVID-19 cases involving variants reaching record levels in Alberta, parents are getting worried about the confirmed cases in classrooms.

  Education

  Apr 6
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• Métis Nation of Alberta has ‘monumental concerns’ with proposed curriculum

  "The tone of the curriculum carries a Eurocentric-American point of view that effectively eliminates the voice and history of the Métis Peoples in Alberta," Audrey Poitras said.

  Education

  Mar 31
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• Social studies, religion, Indigenous history sections of proposed Alberta curriculum under fire

  Alberta's proposed school curriculum is being criticized for blasting historical facts at kids, missing the mark on First Nations and religion.

  Education

  Mar 30