{"id":28329,"date":"2014-10-10T00:34:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28329"},"modified":"2014-10-09T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T06:41:47","slug":"alberta-says-it-will-build-55-new-schools-expected-to-cost-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/10\/alberta-says-it-will-build-55-new-schools-expected-to-cost-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta says it will build 55 new schools; expected to cost $2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14570\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14570\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Prentice (Facebook photo)\" width=\"509\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-2.jpg 509w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JIm-Prentice-2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Prentice (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CALGARY\u2014The Alberta government says it will build 55 new schools across the province and modernize 20 more.<\/p>\n<p>The projects, announced by Premier Jim Prentice in Calgary, are in addition to 50 news schools and 70 modernizations announced last year by former premier Alison Redford.<\/p>\n<p>An Infrastructure Department spokesman says most of the new schools are to be ready for students by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A final tab is not yet known, but it\u2019s expected to exceed $2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The government is giving school boards an immediate injection of $43 million so that planning can begin right away.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen of the new schools are to be built in Edmonton and 12 are to go up in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>The government says all but five of the 50 new schools Redford announced will be ready for students in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition Wildrose says the schools are long overdue, but the party is concerned that Prentice made the announcement during a byelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Prentice and Education Minister Gord Dirks don\u2019t have seats in the legislature and are running in byelections set for Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildrose says it will ask the ethics commissioner to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY\u2014The Alberta government says it will build 55 new schools across the province and modernize 20 more. The projects, announced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}