Charter Schools in Alberta: Change or Continuity in Progressive Conservative Education Policy?.

Wagner, Michael

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ERIC Number: EJ584539

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Publication Date: 1999

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Charter Schools in Alberta: Change or Continuity in Progressive Conservative Education Policy?

Wagner, Michael

Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v45 n1 p52-66 Spr 1999

The recent establishment of charter schools in Alberta (Canada) has prompted allegations of a radical change towards privatization by the Progressive Conservative (PC) government. However, policy decisions since the 1970s demonstrate that the PC government has consistently supported private alternatives to public education; charter schools extend the party's longstanding policy of educational choice. Contains 37 references. (Author/TD)

Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship, Home Schooling, Politics of Education, Private Schools, Privatization, School Choice

Publication Type: Historical Materials; Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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