Province reveals new K-12 education funding model – with no dollar figures attached

Education Minister Adriana Lagrange is promising more money in classrooms and more certainty for Alberta school boards planning their budgets. The new model for provincial funding of Kindergarten to Grade 12 classrooms came with many assurances but essentially no numbers to support them. For that, she said, Albertans will have to wait for next week’s provincial budget. The new approach will use what it calls a "weighted moving average" to measure enrollment, which will in turn determine th