New life for Exshaw School as feds pledge 3-year funding commitment

A funding agreement involving the federal government has provided assurance that a school west of Calgary with a primarily Indigenous student body will remain open for the next three years. Exshaw School — located in the hamlet of Exshaw, east of Canmore, along Highway 1A — faced an uncertain future after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) reduced its funding from $19,268 per student to $11,500 per student in December 2019. The cut prompted a Canadian Rockies Public Schools (CRPS) trus