If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.
"I think it's wrong to have the highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools," the Calgary teacher said in an interview on Tuesday.
Last month, Taylor applied to Elections Alberta to petition for a referendum on the practice of using public funds to operate independent schools — also called private schools.
Elections Alberta announced on Tuesday it has approved her initiative petition question. The agency will spend the next week giving public notice that the initiative was approved, and on Oct. 14, Taylor can begin collecting signatures.
The question she posed is, "Should the government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?"
The application was greeted with disappointment by the non-profit organization supporting the province's independent schools.
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