MEETINGS
WHAT CAN PARENTS DO ABOUT EDUCATION FUNDING?
Contact Your Elected Representatives
- Write! Call! Visit! Trustees and MLAs
- We can help.
- Sample letters from School Councils (NEW!!)
- to parents to encourage action
- to government to encourage change
- Sample letter, advocacy tips from Canadian
Rockies Public Schools - Board of
Trustees (NEW!!)
Circulate the Petition!
Although the original submission deadline has passed, it was in place to allow for the petition to be read into the public record of the spring sitting of the legislature. Petitions can still be submitted and will be read in the next sitting. Let's keep the petition going!
- Download your copy here
- Get as many signatures as possible
- Submit original copies only
- Submission details are here
Engage at your school - Attend a school council meeting!
Engage with the Minister of Education on his blog. (NEW!!)
Learn what Alberta leadership candidates think about education.
At the end of April, CAPSC distributed education related questionnaires to all of the provincial political leadership candidates who had declared their intention to run. Responses submitted to date are available here.
Participate in CAPSC!
Please communicate details of responses from MLAs or any other government officials to us. A repository of elected officials’ opinions and insights will impact key messaging related to public education for CAPSC and its members.
Observe what is going on in your community and especially at your school. Send your observations to CAPSC. Share with us what is said related to this issue at your school council meetings, conversations with friends and family, email, facebook and twitter. Let us know what your MLA is communicating about education (ie: maybe they wrote a column for the local community newsletter). The more info we have, the more we can do!
Share any data/research related to public education. The effective use of this information helps convey our message to government and the public at large. It complements the personal stories and anectodates. Overall, it helps us gain supporters.
WHAT IS CAPSC DOING?
- Developing a focused advocacy strategy to share with and support school councils – check back frequently,
- Supporting grassroots advocacy efforts and action plans by getting the word out,
- Blogging to keep school councils current and providing opportunities to share their critical analysis of issues online,
- Facilitating networking, information sharing, and brain storming opportunities with school councils by hosting monthly meetings (our last meeting of the 2010-2011 school year took place Wednesday, May 18. Stay tuned and we hope you'll join us next year!),
- Providing media with a parent perspective, and
- Building a coalition of similarly focused groups to present a united front in support of predictable, stable funding for education.
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About Us
HOW CAPSC CAN HELP YOU...
The Calgary Association of Parents and School Councils is Calgary’s city wide, public school (CBE), school council association. Our goals are to keep parents and school councils up to date and involved in their children’s education, and to help make individual school councils as effective as possible.
We strive to provide resources, information and support to all CBE school councils. We offer monthly meetings, a free monthly e-newsletter, web-based resources, and individualized school council support.
In the 2010-2011 school year, we hosted:
- seven all-candidate meetings during the
lead up to the CBE Trustee election.
- a Q&A with CBE's new Chief Superintendent,
Naomi Johnson,
- a Q&A with Minister of Education, David
Hancock
- a discussion about upcoming changes to
Special Education, with expert panelists
from Alberta Education
- monthly meetings with expert CBE, Alberta
Education and community presenters on
a wide range of relevant, education related
topics.
For more information, please click here.
 
Blog Postings!
Feeling out of the information loop between monthly CAPSC newsletters? Check out our blog! Our CAPSC Executive team commits significant time to keeping the blog updated and relevant.
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