Northern Alberta school division hopes university tuition, housing upgrades help attract more teachers

A sweeping northern Alberta school division is offering to pay the way for people to complete teacher training in an effort to curtail its recruitment and retention struggles.
In addition to a promise to pay for support staff to do a bachelor of education degree through the University of Calgary, Northland School Division is asking for $6 million to help replenish and replace its stock of rental housing for teachers in remote communities.
“We want to be fully staffed, and we’re not,