• Alberta is now home to four new collegiate schools and 14 existing ones have received expansion funding

  Source: Alberta - Edmonton Journal (Legislature & Capital)
  Date: 2026-09-29 12:00:39.0
  Tags: [Alberta, Education, Finance, Infrastructure]

  The Government of Alberta added four new collegiate schools—CTR Strathmore and District Practical Ranching School, Calgary Skilled Trades and Technologies Collegiate, Grande Prairie Regional Career Collegiate, and St. Joseph the Worker Collegiate—for the 2026-27 academic year, bringing the provincial total to 32 operating collegiate schools. Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides announced that 14 existing collegiate schools received provincial funding to expand programming and renovate unused spaces to other locations. Budget 2026 earmarked $32.1 million in operating and capital funding to support the expansion of the specialized secondary and post-secondary pathway model.

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• Edmonton Public Schools to consider changing number of wards and trustees in next civic election

  Source: Alberta - Edmonton Journal (Legislature & Capital)
  Date: 2026-09-15 22:40:20.0
  Tags: [Alberta, Municipal, Education, Governance, Finance]

  Edmonton Public Schools is considering reducing its electoral wards and trustees from nine down to seven ahead of the 2029 civic election, following a five per cent reduction to the division's system administration grant by the Government of Alberta. Ward F Trustee Julie Kusiek introduced the motion to have division planners draft boundary options, which the board voted 7-2 to defer to the October meeting. Any structural change to the total number of trustees requires formal ministerial approval under provincial education guidelines.

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