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David King

The tragedy of Uvalde

On Tuesday, May 24th, in Uvalde, Texas, an N.R.A./gun weapon massacre took the lives of 19 elementary school students, 2 of their teachers…

May 27, 2022

May 27, 2022

David King

Alberta’s Education Amendment Act — Reforming Teacher Profession Discipline — hides an Improvised…

Bill 15 (Education Amendment Act — Reforming Teacher Profession Discipline) is bad legislation in its impact on teachers and the teaching…

Apr 7, 2022

Apr 7, 2022

David King

Housing in Oak Bay — best answers?

Housing in Oak Bay continues to be topical. Most recently, two District Councillors, Cairine Greene and Hazel Braithwaite have contributed…

Apr 5, 2022

Apr 5, 2022

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Bill 15 is misguided public policy and puts education at risk

Myer Horowitz, former President of the University of Alberta and former Dean of the Faculty of Education of the U. of A.

Apr 5, 2022

Apr 5, 2022

David King

More on charter schools — are ‘Public’ Schools public?

Some readers of an earlier piece challenged the way I distinguished public schools from charter schools which, I argue, are private. Some…

Apr 2, 2022

Apr 2, 2022

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Put yourself in the shoes of a Ukrainian. What of the Future?

This is day 35 of the invasion. Most of the world understands the invasion by means of occasional news segments to which we briefly turn…

Mar 30, 2022

Mar 30, 2022

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Are charter schools ‘public’?

A recent opinion piece in the Edmonton Journal invites further conversation about charter schools in the context of public school…

Mar 26, 2022

Mar 26, 2022

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On Public School Education (#2) — The Dilemma of modelling a civil democratic community

If a vital goal of public school education is to create citizens then it follows that each and every school should manifest itself as a…

Mar 25, 2022

Mar 25, 2022

David King

On Public School Education (#1 of 3)

The March 14th edition of The New Yorker, included an article entitled “The Access Trap”, by Nathan Heller. This is what The New Yorker is…

Mar 24, 2022

Mar 24, 2022

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Reflecting on the Ottawa Occupation

Democracy is always a work in progress

Feb 20, 2022

Feb 20, 2022

David King

David King

Former Cabinet Minister in Alberta — long-time partisan, now defanged. Passionate about community, democracy, & education. The future is all we have left.

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