One day after the provincial government unveiled its 2024 budget, Premier Danielle Smith held a news conference in Calgary to announce what Alberta school projects will receive funding as population growth continues to drive the need for more spaces for students.
“Today is a great day,” Smith told reporters Friday at Saint Mary’s High School in Calgary. “We are investing in a bright future for our children with new and modernized schools and enhanced learning supports for students of all abilities.”
Thirteen of the school projects that will receive funding, according to the latest budget, are in Edmonton.
Of the Edmonton projects receiving full construction funding, four will be for the Edmonton Catholic School Division:
-a new K-9 school in Crystallina Nera;
-a new K-9 school in Heritage Valley/Cavanagh;
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-a new K-9 school in Hays Ridge;
-a K-9 “solution” in Rundle.
One Edmonton Public Schools project received full construction funding: a new grade 7-12 school in Glenridding Heights.
Julie Kusiek, …