Alberta was calling and now the government is working to address one of the consequences of an unprecedented number of people moving to the Prairie province over the past year.
In a televised address, Premier Danielle Smith said the Alberta government will be quadrupling the amount of capital money going towards K-12 school construction over the next three years via a new program called the School Construction Accelerator Program.Alberta was calling, both Canadians and immigrants answered and now the government is working to address the consequence of an unprecedented number of people moving to the Prairie province over the past year.
The province’s two largest divisions, Edmonton Public Schools and the Calgary Board of Education, have both said their schools are expected to have a utilization rate of well over 90 per cent this school year.The premier said while this year’s provincial budget allocated $2.1 billion for new school construction and modernizations over the next three years — to add about 33,000 spaces — that is no longer enough to address population growth.
“This new program will also fund the purchase of new specialized modular classrooms to provide over 20,000 new student spaces over the next four years,” Smith said.An undisclosed portion of the $8.6 billion will also go towards a pilot project called the “Charter School accelerator program” that Smith said is designed to add 12,500 new charter school student spaces over the next four years.
While the bulk of the growth came from international migration, Alberta also shattered a national record last year for interprovincial migration, with a net gain of 55,107 people. She then slammed the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government’s “unrestrained open border policies” for admitting over a million newcomers each year into Canada.over a potential plan that would see asylum claimants spread more evenly amongst the provinces, saying Alberta is can’t afford it.
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