Edmonton parents have voted with their feet, and with the future of their precious children at stake.
This is an extremely divisive political topic in the United States just now, an ugly culture war between left and right.
I used to be extremely leery of school choice myself, no surprise given that my father, Brian Staples, founded and ran the provincial community school program.
Spurred on by the advent of charter schools in the 1990s, dozens of special programs for language, the arts, sports and religious studies were also started within the public system.
With my own kids, when we encountered iffy standards of discipline in one classroom and weak math education at another school, I was grateful that other public school options existed.
STEM Collegiate will focus on technology, engineering, architecture, biomedical and computer engineering, digital media and health and life sciences.
When Edmonton Public got wind that STEM Collegiate was coming, it started up its own competing STEM program at Thelma Chalifoux School.
We have enabled email notifications—you will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments.
This website uses cookies to personalize your content , and allows us to analyze our traffic.