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✅ Budget 2024 announced an investment of $1 billion over five years.
✅ The Program will receive permanent funding of $216.6 million per year, starting in 2029-2030.
Thank you to the federal government for making this a priority. 👏
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"It tries to teach Grade 1 students how to multiply. Grade 3 students learn how to count American money — not Canadian. And Grade 4 students are instructed in drawing triangles — an activity for those in Grade 1." Tough to get grade 1 kids to multiply when some don't know their numbers to 10. #ABleg
Thank you for your unwavering support!
Three opportunities for you to rally for public education on October 5 which is also World Teachers' Day. #stoptheexcuses #weareATA
When someone says teachers should "get back" and kids should "get back" to class. Ask yourself....
What are they "getting back" to? The current situations is unsustainable. Getting back to more unsustainable conditions is not a worthy goal.
Stand with teachers. #ableg #abed #abpoli #cndpoli
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We know why we’re here, we're standing tall for our students, for our profession, and for the future of public education.
This is hard—but the right thing often is.
Stay strong, stay united.
A strike is never easy. It’s stressful, it’s uncertain, and it weighs on all of us. I know you feel, I feel it too. Today I spent the morning with our newest colleagues and they are worried but resolved in their commitment. #weareATA
Three opportunities for you to rally for public education on October 5 which is also World Teachers' Day. #stoptheexcuses #weareATA
The government may be disappointed; however, nearly 90% rejection of the proposed agreement, not once but twice, is not confusion, it’s clarity.
In the last two days--I've read or heard government say three different numbers of new students added to the education system in the last 2 years--50,000, 80,000 and 100,000. So which is it?
Maybe government should start collecting class size data again (they stopped in 2019)?
Utter contempt and disrespect from Bruce McAllister.
Cutting off the kid's mic and limiting his freedom of expression is one thing, but saying he should be spanked is a fireable offense from a supposedly neutral moderator. Bruce needs to be removed immediately.
By way of context…
In May, 22,300 teacher voted against the UCP’s offer at 61.99%
Today, 38,113 voted no at 89.5%.
In May, 13,517 voted to accept.
Today?
Only 4,479.
The UCP managed to find a way to actually make things worse.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed
Minister Horner says TEBA won’t return to the table until the LRB issue is resolved—delaying and frustrating bargaining. The ATA has tabled a proposal, teachers await a response. Call me a liar on TV if you want, but AB schools remain the least funded in Canada and that’s the truth.
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Teachers will not be silenced or intimidated. We will keep fighting for safe classrooms, proper supports, and fair compensation. Alberta’s students deserve nothing less—and we will not stop until solutions are at the table. /5
To accuse teachers of misleading families is not only false—it is a lie, and one that deeply insults the very people who show up every day under impossible conditions to support Alberta’s students. /4
Teachers don’t want a strike. They want improvements for students and working conditions. Yet government has chosen to walk away from bargaining and attack teachers for sharing accurate, factual information about the crisis in schools that they created through underfunding. /3
The complaint objects to a simple truth: government has refused to give its negotiators the means to address class size, class complexity, student supports, and safe classrooms. That’s not a talking point. That’s the reality at the table. /2
Today the government chose legal maneuvers over negotiation. Instead of responding to the ATA’s latest proposal, it filed a Labour Relations complaint to delay and distract. Teachers are ready for a deal—government is not. /1
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We will meet with government to continue talks. The choice is government’s: resolve this dispute now, or face a province-wide strike. Because when teachers win a fair deal, kids win stronger classrooms.
Teachers have bargained in good faith while showing up for kids every day. And they continue to do so. But after months of being stonewalled, patience has run out. Unless a settlement is reached, teachers will strike on October 6.
Alberta’s teachers have given everything to their students, schools, and communities. But their pay has fallen behind, workloads have soared, and classrooms are bursting without the resources they need. Public education is in crisis.
Why did Alberta's initial book-ban policy cover written passages in the first place, if Danielle Smith & Co only ever wanted to cover "explicit" images?
It's a good question, and one Education Min Nicolaides didn't really answer today. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Through education, teachers empower individuals with the literacy skills needed to engage and contribute to society.
This #InternationalLiteracyDay2025, we emphasize #PromotingLiteracyInTheDigitalEra and will continue to invest in education and support those who make it possible.
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The book ban along with the fairness in sports regulation was, and remains, unnecessary government overreach. The revisions provide some clarity, but without real support, the gov’t is once again leaving teachers and schools to clean up the mess.
Blanket bans—on books or requiring only female students to prove gender for sports—are blunt tools for issues that demand sensitive, thoughtful conversations. There are better approaches: case-by-case evaluations, hormone-based criteria, or open categories.
Teachers have always ensured classroom materials are age-appropriate and inclusive. Yet in the 2 months before the pause, many schools had already removed and discarded books. That’s a shame—and another burden added to teachers without time or resources.
When the government first announced plans to ban or limit books in schools, it created confusion for boards, anxiety for teachers, and made the public question both government priorities and the integrity of teachers in an already underfunded system
