Prentice promises action on First Nation education – Calgary Herald

November 17, 2014

Premier Jim Prentice is promising “new energy” and specific initiatives aimed at improving First Nations and Metis education, saying it is crucial to Alberta’s future well-being.

Monday’s throne speech, the first since Prentice became premier, pledged the Progressive Conservative government will close the “unacceptable gaps in education achievement between aboriginal and non-aboriginal students.”

“We’re all in this together,” Prentice, who is also the province’s aboriginal relations minister, said in an interview at the legislature.

“It’s truly important that all of our children, whether you speak of aboriginal children or non-aboriginal children, have access to high-quality education … my personal view is that if you take care of that, then most other problems will solve themselves.”