Dr. Anne Anderson School, the division's first new high school in 12 years, will welcome students from Grade 10 and 11 this fall, then expand to include Grade 12 in the 2022 school year.
EDMONTON Kids attending school from Kindergarten to Grade 6 are shifting to online learning on Friday, and are scheduled to return to in-person learning after the May long weekend. Students from Grade 7 - 12 in some COVID-19 hot spots have been online since April 20. Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said in a news conference Wednesday that the shift to online learning for all Alberta students will help minimize the learning loss due to absences from positive COVID-19 cases that required quarantining. It also allows our teachers and support staff to access vaccinations that were announced earlier this week and the expansion that we ve just heard today, said LaGrange.
EDMONTON Edmonton Catholic Schools is the latest Alberta school division to decide not to pilot the draft K-6 curriculum during the 2021-22 school year. The draft has been marred in controversy, with concerns about its content, academic language and timing during the pandemic. “We believe the conditions have not been met for a quality piloting process,” said ECSD Chief Superintendent Robert Martin. “This decision is based on the voices of more than 1,000 teachers.” “Across the different curriculum areas there are questions about the age appropriate, there are lots of instances where information is brought from what is currently older grades down to younger grades and our teachers had lots of questions whether that content was appropriate,” said Nicole Lafreniere, Director of Curriculum and Professional Learning.
TORONTO Activists, experts and policy makers are speaking out on what they describe as an ever-growing “influence” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Canadian business, academic and political circles. There has been mounting scrutiny on the CCP’s increased flexing of its intelligence muscles since the ascension of President Xi Jinping in 2013. Canada’s intelligence agencies have taken the rare step of naming China as a significant threat to the country’s sovereignty, with CSIS director David Vigneault publicly saying in a February 2021 speech that Canadians are being “aggressively” targeted by foreign interests – and Beijing was engaged in “activities that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty.”