Who is to blame?

Despite the fact that Alberta is the richest province in Canada, one of the strongest economies in the world and is on the verge of an economic boom, the provincial government can't manage to meet the obligations of a contract that they negotiated.

To save money in an economic boom teachers should take a wage freeze?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/05/30/edmonton-stelmach-teachers-unions-cuts.html?ref=rss

If the province can't manage to meet it's contractual obligations, they should go back to letting boards negotiate teacher contracts. When the teacher contracts were negotiated by school boards they were only an issue at contract time. Once a contract was done, everyone expected to live up to the agreements until next contract time.

Education cuts

I love it when people get passionate about education

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Hundreds+rally+against+education+cuts/4860643/story.html

Cutting School Days

It was reported recently that the St. Paul Education Regional Division is cutting the school year by one day to save $50,000. It may seem like a good idea on the surface but it is setting a dangerous precedence.

What is the message that is being sent to children? School is important for your future, you must attend classes regularly, unless it will save us some money.

This is the richest province in Canada. We have a strong economy and by all indicators it will only be getting stronger. Do we really need to be saving money buy cutting class time for children?