EXCLUSIVE: Petition challenges Alberta’s school choice funding model
Elections Alberta has approved a citizen initiative petition calling for the province to end public funding for accredited independent schools.
Elections Alberta has approved a citizen initiative petition calling for the province to end public funding for accredited independent schools that could upend Alberta’s decades-old “funding follows the child” education model.
The initiative asks: “Should the Government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?”
