Promesses des candidats de la circonscription Calgary-Edgemont concernant Education

Career planning

Nous n’avons par de NDP politiques sur Career planning.

UCP

Partner with industry and youth organisations to run career fairs for high school students

"Partner with various industry and youth organizations to organize career fairs for high school students. The initial focus will be on in-demand sectors such as manufacturing, construction, trades, tech, energy, and health." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-24
Create an online career counselling service for students and parents

"Establish a student-friendly online career counselling service for students and parents to learn more about various career opportunities and provide a roadmap for pursuing them." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-24
Start a career options awareness campaign

"Develop a public communication and awareness campaign to help ensure Albertans recognize all careers as valuable and legitimate and promote career pathways for all Albertans." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-24
Develop and fund training for teachers

"Develop and fund teacher training opportunities for career and technology studies and career and technology foundations programming." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-24
Provide scholarships

"Develop and promote career education scholarships for students." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-24

Diversity in schools

NDP

Reintroduce legal protections for GSAs in schools

"And an Alberta NDP government will re-introduce legal protections for GSAs in schools, allowing students to create and participate in them without delays, restrictions, or reprisal." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
Develop Filipino and Somali curricula for interested schools
Work with First Nations to develop K-12 curriculum in 6 Indigenous languages

"We will support language learning and we will work with First Nations to develop K-12 curriculum in 6 of Alberta’s most prominent Indigenous languages - Dene, Nehiyâwewin (Cree), Isga (Nakota Sioux), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Tsuu’tina and Michif." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27

Nous n’avons par de UCP politiques sur Diversity in schools.

SM

Stop the indoctrination of our children
Mandatory outcomes expectations metrics for teachers
Ensure additional resources available for children struggling to maintain basic literacy
Parents have the option to opt out of classes.
Parents have a say and RIGHT to know.

Indigenous learning

Nous n’avons par de NDP politiques sur Indigenous learning.

Nous n’avons par de UCP politiques sur Indigenous learning.

SM

Ensure additional resources available for children struggling to maintain basic literacy

K-12 funding

Nous n’avons par de NDP politiques sur K-12 funding.

UCP

Expand funding for Career and Technology and Mobile CTS / Career and Technology Foundations for rural school boards

"Expanding Funding for Career and Technology (CTS) and Mobile CTS/ Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) for rural school boards

Enhance the Dual Credit Grant Program to make more funding available for school authorities to create new dual credit programming and support existing programming. Funds can also be used to purchase new equipment or upgrade facilities that enhance existing dual credit opportunities.

Provide new funding to support mobile CTS and CTF labs." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-24

Allen Schultz

Candidat du AP dans votre circonscription

A freeze on funding for Private and Charter Schools
Adopt a new funding model that responds to dynamic changes in classrooms

SM

Education funding follows the student

Learning needs

Nous n’avons par de NDP politiques sur Learning needs.

Nous n’avons par de UCP politiques sur Learning needs.

Allen Schultz

Candidat du AP dans votre circonscription

Adopt class size recommendations (k-3: 17, 4-6: 23, 7-9: 25, 10-12: 27)
Commit to identify learning challenges in pre-school children and properly fund the assistance required
In collaboration with stakeholders including teachers and students create a non-partisan curriculum based on best practices

SM

Proper education of our children is a high priority. Budgets must fund the requirements to deliver a HIGH quality and meaningful curriculum decided upon mutually between school boards and PARENTS.

Post-secondary costs and tuition

NDP

Freeze post-secondary tuition at 2022-23 levels and cap future increases to inflation

Nous n’avons par de UCP politiques sur Post-secondary costs and tuition.

Allen Schultz

Candidat du AP dans votre circonscription

Lower the costs of post secondary and training by 50% over 5 years

Post-secondary institutions

NDP

Provide up to $200M for a downtown Calgary campus
Partner with NAIT to build an Advanced Skills Centre to train nearly 10K apprentices per year

"The Alberta NDP has allocated $45 million over three years to fund the planning and site preparation for the construction of the NAIT Advanced Skills Centre. Presently, NAIT trains around 8,600 apprentices annually, but with projected growth, Alberta is expected to require 51,000 new apprentices within the next three years." — Building a Better Future for Edmonton, retrieved 2023-05-22
Create 30K new spaces for post-secondary learning, training, and apprenticeships
Work with post-secondary institutions to relocate or expand their campuses in downtown Calgary

UCP

Increase access to off-campus education

"Develop and fund career education partnerships that provide career education opportunities for all Alberta students.

Align the pre-employment program costs for students in Alberta’s K-12 system with those incurred by post-secondary students.

Fund the growth of CAREERS: the Next Generation’s work to collaborate with public and separate school divisions to include student participation in off-campus programs, particularly expanding opportunities to connect youth with paid internships." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-24

School construction and upgrades

NDP

Build and modernise 125 schools

Nous n’avons par de UCP politiques sur School construction and upgrades.

Allen Schultz

Candidat du AP dans votre circonscription

Develop a province wide, priority based infrastructure plan for schools

School curriculum

NDP

Begin to review and revise the curriculum within 100 days of forming government

"In our first 100 days, we will work to review and revise the curriculum to ensure it’s modern, inclusive, and supports Alberta students to excel and compete globally."

Nous n’avons par de UCP politiques sur School curriculum.

SM

Review and revise the current WOKE curriculum ensuring consultation with Parents. Back to the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic.

School nutrition

NDP

Invest $35M more in a school nutrition programme for up to 75K students

"We’ll work to ensure no child goes hungry by investing an additional $35 million in a School Nutrition Program to provide nutritious food for up to 75,000 students across Alberta." — albertandp.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27