id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_e7f7vkfpznarvpkr5hvken2xee John L. Hiemstra The Advent of a Public Pluriformity Model: Faith-Based School Choice in Alberta [Abstract] 2006 34 .pdf application/pdf 10308 886 53 Key words: school choice, religion, pluralism, public policy, social cohesion based schooling, such as religion courses, alternative programs, 'de facto Territories, Roman Catholic separate and public schools received full partial public funding to Catholic schools, and then only as independent Over half of Alberta's public school boards operate faith‐based Alberta Students Receiving Faith‐based Schooling by Type of School Authority, Any public school in Alberta is legally entitled to offer courses about schools, currently run by 24 of Alberta's 42 public districts. colony public schools educate 3109 students. 661 students received faith‐based schooling in de jure reserved public Today, most Alberta public boards offer some type of alternative Furthermore, Catholic schools offer religious education (ACSTA, Logos Christian Education Programs that school 180 students (St. Albert In 2001‐2002, Alberta's Catholic separate denominational schools 414,006 students in public schools, 126,977 with separate denominational Alberta's 1905 model of non‐sectarian public schooling with 2006, from http://www.acsta.ab.ca/publications/faith_in_education.htm# http://www.acsta.ab.ca/publications/faith_in_education.htm#permeated ./cache/work_e7f7vkfpznarvpkr5hvken2xee.pdf ./txt/work_e7f7vkfpznarvpkr5hvken2xee.txt