Recently, as has been reported in the Calgary media, many of the older schools in the city require significant maintenance to bring them back up to a level that would make the schools useable.
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The Calgary Board of Education and many pundits have indicated that the problem is that the Province of Alberta hasn’t provided sufficient funding for the schools.
I see this problem as evidence of why the Trustees on the CBE should be fired and the Board dissolved altogether.
The Board of Education has the responsibility to run the schools.