Alberta has rolled out an $8.6 billion plan to speed up the building of new schools–public, private, and charter–in response to rising student enrolment driven by rapid population growth.
The new School Construction Accelerator Program will create more than 200,000 new student spaces over the next seven years, the province said in a Sept. 18 press release.
Part of the funding will go toward a Charter School Accelerator Program designed to add 12,500 new charter school student spaces over the next four years, Premier Danielle Smith said in a Sept. 17 announcement.
The province will also start a school capital pilot program to encourage the creation of new spaces in non-profit private schools….