This will likely be the Year of the Referendum in Alberta, but it’s still unclear which issues will be put to Alberta voters.

We can strike one possible candidate from the list, though — the question of Alberta’s private school funding model. Efforts to put such a question on the ballot have come up short, as confirmed last week by the organizer of the citizen initiative petition.

Reasonable people can disagree on this matter, but it’s probably for the best that this question isn’t going forward. It was not a fair or accurate framing of the status quo, nor does it address the problems affecting public education.

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The proposed ballot question was, “Should the Government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?”

Clearly, many Albertans have strong feelings on the matter, especially coming off the heels of the recent teachers’ strike and the underlying pressures in the........

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