***Breaking News***
@RachelNotley @MarieFrRenaud @JanisIrwin
ADLC has been informed by Minister Andre Corbould the agreement with Alberta Education will be renewed for 2 more school years 2020-2022. Thereafter, the service agreement will be concluded."
UCP PLANS TO SHUTTER THE ALBERTA DISTANCE LEARNING CENTRE
If you have an ill child or bullied child who needs to study at home rather than attend school, the Alberta government does not care about you. It is shutting down the Alberta Distance Learning Centre.
If you live in a remote place or your work puts you on the move, and makes it difficult for your children to be registered in an attendance-only school, the Alberta government does not care about you. It is shutting down the Alberta Distance Learning Centre.
If your child failed a course or two that they need to redo, so that they can go on to the next grade or perhaps be able to attend university or college the next semester, the Alberta government does not care about you. It is shutting down the Alberta Distance Learning Centre.
The ALDC was once treated as an important Alberta institution. It was headquartered in Edmonton until 1980. But late in 1979, there was a provincial by-election in Barrhead-Westlock. It had been necessitated by the MLA (Hugh Horner) getting a plum job from....
.... Joe Clark during his brief prime ministership. Barrhead had given the Tories over 80 percent of the vote in the provincial election earlier in 1979 and so the Tories expected their candidate, Ken Kowalski, to romp to victory.
His main challenger was Nick Taylor, the leader of the provincial Liberals, a party with no seats in the legislature at the time and pretty much zero profile. Taylor asked residents of that seat what the oil boom had brought them and Kowalski only narrowly beat Taylor.
Within months, the Lougheed government announced a policy for provincial agencies. Athabasca University was moved to Athabasca; the Environment Council of Alberta was moved to Vegreville; and the predecessor of the ADLC, the Alberta Correspondence College, was moved to Barrhead.
And now the UCP, which takes voters in rural Alberta for granted, and could care less about the educational needs of students who are not severely normal, has decreed that there will be budgeting for the ADLC for just this year and next....
.... with the 2021-22 budget lopped in half from the 2020-21 budget. And then the ADLC will almost certainly disappear.
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