Alberta's education minister says the province's new K-12 curriculum will lead the country in how it addresses reconciliation with Indigenous people. "We are going to have very, very strong First Nations, Métis and Inuit content," Adriana LaGrange told a legislative committee reviewing the education budget on Wednesday. LaGrange has been adamant a new provincial school curriculum will contain lessons about the dark history of residential schools, Indigenous history, Black history and anti-racist education since government-solicited curriculum advice leaked last year. All funding for implementation will come out of the education department's budget, not from schools, she said. Troubling enrolment dipThe minister also revealed final school enrolment counts that showed more than 24,000 students who were expected in Alberta schools did not materialize.

Source: CBC News March 11, 2021 02:48 UTC