Alberta Teachers Strike to Stand Against Dismantling of Public Education

As of October 6, 2025, about 51,000 teachers and administrators in Alberta will be striking. This is a historic and pivotal moment. The last teacher labour action took place over 20 years ago. Since then, our public education system has been chronically underfunded and slowly eroded to the point of being unrecognizable. To be perfectly clear, teachers are not striking just for themselves as individuals. As frontline educators, they live the same daily school and class conditions that our students face. Teachers are striking for all of us, for our public education system to stop being deliberately dismantled to usher in privatization and fragmentation.
“Alberta’s 51,000 teachers are striking for their students. They are striking for Alberta families, over 93% of which attend public schools. Disgracefully, Alberta spends the least on public education, while simultaneously spending the most on private education in Canada. The UCP government is continuing their destruction of public education by refusing to fund students adequately, and teachers have had enough.” - Medeana Moussa, Executive Director of Support Our Students AB
Our public education system was once a world-leading system. But through cumulative budget cuts and policies that persistently de-prioritized public education while diverting public funds to private and charter schools, we’ve arrived at this precipice. The latest UCP government exacerbated existing stresses by cutting public funding despite skyrocketing inflation and large population booms; while disproportionately increasing funding to private and charter schools.
“These strained conditions did not happen overnight. The province has continually undermined public education through gradual defunding that was normalized over time. We have reached an unsustainable breaking point and that’s why teachers are forced to act. All of us as parents, families, and students, need to support them. Public education belongs to all of us as a collective and this is the time to take a stand together.” - Medeana Moussa, Executive Director

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