Officials say the decision was based on overwhelming feedback from parents, community leaders and curriculum experts. It s not even that it s worth piloting but also that the concerns are plenty enough that it warrants a rewrite and so I m quite pleased that the board of trustees voted in favour of bringing this forward, said Estabrooks. She says 37 school boards representing 65 per cent of Alberta students have already refused to pilot the draft curriculum.
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The Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) will be asking for a non-confidence vote on the draft K-6 curriculum at a spring meeting of the Alberta School Board Association (ASBA) in June.
Trustees passed a motion 6-2 Tuesday afternoon that, if the resolution is approved and passes at the ASBA meeting, would see the association lobby the government to halt the curriculum pilots and demand a rewrite. It says the draft is rife with errors and plagiarism, is not age-appropriate, and it does not reflect the province’s diversity.
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EDMONTON In early April, a motion was put forward to the Board of Trustees for Edmonton Public Schools highlighting a need for free access to menstrual products in the public school system to help mitigate period poverty. The motion was passed on Tuesday during the Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) meeting. “Providing free access to these products levels the playing field,” Trisha Estabrooks, board chair for EPSB, said. “If we can do something that further enhances that by providing access to these free products, I think it’s great.” Estabrooks credits the voices of her colleagues, students and the community for bringing this topic to light.
It has also created a form to send messages of support to Pazo and his family. Just to show the support and to show that he s not alone in this and that the community supports him, Touko said. He said several people have also come together to raise funds to support the family.
A GoFundMe has brought in more than $25,000 to help cover a variety of expenses, including legal and long-term psychological needs.
Accountability needed, mayor says
Mayor Don Iveson said during a news availability Monday that the attack demonstrates that more work needs to be done to combat racism.
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Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 2 minute read • The family of 14-year, Pazo Police and community advocates are calling on city police to launch a full investigation and lay charges after a schoolyard attack left him in hospital. Pazo is in the middle with the blue hoody on Supplied image 2021 jpg
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Family and community advocates are calling on city police to launch a full investigation and lay charges after a schoolyard attack left a 14-year-old boy in hospital.
Pazo Police, 14, said he was walking across a field to a bus stop near Rosslyn School last Friday when he was chased, grabbed and attacked by six or seven boys. A video of the altercation shows Police being wrestled to the ground by two boys before several others join in punching and kicking him. At one point, one of the boys is heard saying “no head kicks” as they continue to swarm him. Police is heard yelling out in pain during th