"Even with a $1.3-billion decrease in the 2010 deficit, the province says it won't restore $100 million to the education budget for teachers' salaries."
I wonder how many teachers and school staff voted PC in the last election.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Exam time
An interesting exam strategy.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/06/24/calgary-hanna-naked-streaker.html
Friday, June 24, 2011
Net Generation
Should school be a place where we mimic the multitasking environment or should it be a place where we slow things down, teach students to read and write complete words, sentences and paragraphs?
Friday, June 17, 2011
Education vs common sense
Being an educated, intelligent person does not mean that you have any common sense.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Government infrastructure dept. got it right
It is not very often I find myself on the side of the government but spending money now to build or renovate schools is right on.
The province has announced a spending blitz to build new schools across the province and renovate many older schools. It will cost huge amounts of money in the short term but money well spent.
Alberta is on the verge of an economic boom and when that is underway, the cost of construction goes up. Oil companies and other businesses will be expanding. The construction companies will be busy; supply and demand will push the cost of construction up.
It is prudent and fiscally responsible to build and renovate now.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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?
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.
Monday, May 30, 2011
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