Education

Wild Rose School Division avoids support staff layoffs

Wild Rose School Division (WRSD) says it has managed to avoid layoffs or work reductions for more than 200 school based support staff at this time despite newly announced provincial funding cuts. The ...

Apr 02, 2020

Red Deer Public Schools defers educational assistant layoffs until June

Red Deer Public Schools says it won't be laying off its 258 educational assistants until June 1, a month later than first planned.The district says there will also be no more assignments for substitut...

Apr 01, 2020

Lacombe parents given choice to help ease space crunch at Terrace Ridge School

Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) has come up with what it hopes are solutions to help ease capacity issues at Terrace Ridge School in Lacombe. Parents of current Grade 6 students can now choose whethe...

Apr 01, 2020

Education minister will not reverse decision on layoffs amid COVID-19 pandemic

Alberta's education minister, in her first public comments since laying off more than 20,000 people in an email on the weekend, resisted Opposition calls to reverse her decision.Adriana LaGrange also ...

Apr 01, 2020

WRSD submits 3-year capital plan and closes Eldorado School

The Wildrose School Division held its Board meeting electronically on March 24.The Board of Trustees reviewed the 2021-2024 Three Year Capital Plan and approved it for submission. The plan included tw...

Mar 31, 2020

Alberta Opposition tells education minister to fight for school funding or quit

EDMONTON - The Alberta Opposition says Education Minister Adriana LaGrange needs to start fighting for students or quit and make way for someone who will.NDP education critic Sarah Hoffman says LaGran...

Mar 30, 2020 Education Minister Adriana LaGrange

Critics say students will suffer from education support staff layoffs

People involved in Alberta's education system say they were blindsided by the provincial government's announcement that K-12 funding for May and June is being scaled back and redirected to fight again...

Mar 30, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)

An open letter from RDC President Dr. Peter Nunoda

Friends of Red Deer College,This is a time that is unprecedented at RDC, not to mention provincially and globally. I know that many of us are feeling the impacts of COVID-19 related challenges on our ...

Mar 21, 2020

Alberta cancels diploma exams

The Alberta government is cancelling diploma exams for Grade 12 students due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The move is part of the plan announced Friday morning by Education Minister Adriana LaGrange for ...

Mar 20, 2020 Education Minister Adriana LaGrange

School divisions readying to resume teaching despite COVID-19

Red Deer's two largest school divisions are preparing to release a slew of school material for students banned from attending classes due to COVID-19.Staff at Red Deer Public Schools have been working...

Mar 19, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)