Calgary Board of Education
| Calgary Board of Education Calgary School District No. 19 |
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1221 – 8 Street S.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada Canada |
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| Coordinates | 51°2′52″N 114°3′30″W / 51.04778°N 114.05833°WCoordinates: 51°2′52″N 114°3′30″W / 51.04778°N 114.05833°W |
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| Superintendent | David Stevenson |
| Chair of the board | Joy Bowen-Eyre |
| Schools | 226 (2015/2016) |
| Budget | CA$1.3 billion (2015-2016) |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 114,500 (2015) |
| Staff | ~ 13,000 (2015) |
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| Elected trustees | Joy Bowen-Eyre, wards 1, 2 Lynn Ferguson, wards 3, 4 Pamela King, wards 5, 10 Trina Hurdman, wards 6, 7 Judi Hehr, ward 8, 9 Julie Hrdlicka, wards 11, 13 Amber Stewart, wards 12, 14 |
| Website | www |
Calgary School District No. 19 or the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) is the public school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a public system, the CBE is required to accept any students who meet age and residency requirements, regardless of religion. It was founded in 1885 as the Calgary Protestant Public School District No. 19.
In terms of student population and school count, the CBE is the largest school board in Alberta, and over twice the size of the other major school district board in Calgary, the Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD), which teaches mainly, but not exclusively, Catholic students. The other two districts based in the city, both Francophone, are a fraction of the size of the CBE with only a handful of schools each. In land area, the CBE is the smallest of the four Calgary districts, as its territory is limited to municipal limits of Calgary (although its area is only slightly smaller than that of the CCSD). As the city limits have expanded, the CBE boundary has remained in sync. All CBE land overlaps the other three districts.
The CBE operates 226 schools in grades K-12. Non-adult student enrollment was 111,518, there is an additional enrollment of 2,982 for continuing education which is CBE-Learn and Chinook Learning. A total Enrollment of 114,472 in Sept 2014. The operating budget was $1.3 billion for the 2015/16 fiscal year.
A group of seven elected trustees govern the CBE. Each trustee represents two wards in the city. They are elected every four years, in the regular municipal election. In the election, Calgary voters can only vote for a trustee to one (not both) of the two main school boards. The last election was in October 2013. The public (CBE) and Catholic (CCSD) systems operate independently of each other, and are both under the direct authority of the provincial government of Alberta.
Long serving Trustee and Chair of the Board, Pat Cochrane declined to run in the 2013 municipal elections. Cochrane was first elected in 1999 and has devoted much effort and time to the causes of Public Education. Fellow trustee George Lane was defeated by a wide margin in Wards 6 & 7.
The CBE operates a number of special programs, usually, but not always operated out of regular schools (with regular instruction).
The CBE operates an adult and continuing education program through Chinook Learning Services. It offers High School Upgrading, Continuing Education and adult English as a Second Language (ESL) programs.
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