Get informed. Demand change. Dive deeper into the issues with these resources:

> Resources featuring or produced by SOS

Editorial: Public education is being actively eroded (Wing Li, ATA News, March 2025)

OpEd: No public money should build private schools in Alberta (Wing Li, Edmonton Journal, Sept. 20, 2024)

Journal Article: Connecting the dots between extreme ideologies, "parent choice" and education privatization in Alberta and Canada (Ganshorn, H. (2024). Critical Education, 15(2). Published by Institute for Critical Education Studies)

Podcast: Parental Rights As A Smokescreen for Privatization with Heather Ganshorn (Public Good Podcast, February 2024)

Letter to the Editor: Albertans Deserve to Know How Big Classes Have Become (Medeana Moussa, Alberta Views, October 2023)

Interview: Back to School with Support Our Students (The Breakdown, Sept. 3, 2023)

Book Review: Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada (Heather Ganshorn, Sept. 1, 2023)

Podcast: The Commodification of Education in Alberta (PressProgress Sources Podcast, May 23, 2023)
​
OpEd: Charter schools erode public education (Wing Li, Edmonton Journal, March 3, 2023)

Strengthening Public Education Panel (AFL Lunch and Learn, February 23, 2023) 

Populism, Polarization and Privatization in Alberta (Ganshorn, H.,The Monitor Mag, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, January 23, 2023)

Podcast: Public Conversations About Privatization - Provincial Privatization (Public Good Podcast)

Podcast: If we let these charter schools expand, it's going to be a loss of what public education really means (Public Good Podcast)

Virtual Webinar: Lunch and Learn - Supports for K-12 Education (Alberta Federation of Labour, Feb. 28, 2023)

Undermining Public Education (H. Ganshorn, Education Forum, November 8, 2022)

OpEd: Beware 'privatization creep' in education system (H. Ganshorn & M. Moussa, Regina Leader-Post, Sept. 1, 2022)

Individualism Run Amok: Vouchers Mean the End of Public Education (Alberta Views, Sept 1, 2020)

> External resources (Alberta & Canada)

Donald Trump and education for acquiescence (William Paul, School Magazine, Dec. 2024)
Education for acquiescence...meanwhile back in Canada (William Paul, School Magazine, Jan. 2025)

Several Alberta charter school lobbyists have ties to UCP government (Angela Amato, Investigative Journalism Fdn., Oct. 4, 2024)

Opinion: 'Parental rights' legislation increases risk of harm for Alberta students (Corinne L. Mason & Leah Hamilton, Edmonton Journal, Jan. 29, 2024)

"Inherently unfair": Concerns raised over private school spending (ATA News, Dec. 10, 2024)
 
Are charter schools really about choice? (Karen Robson & Dr. Rochelle Wijesingha, Education Forum, Dec. 4, 2023)

Charter and Private Schools: A Threat to Public Education (Dr. Curtis Riep, presented by Edmonton Public Teachers Local 37, April 2023)

"Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada"  (Dr. Sue Winton, University of Toronto Press, 2022)

Private Schools Funding in Alberta: Scaling up Privatization (Dr. Curtis Riep, for Public School Boards'  Association of Alberta, 2022)

A Review of K-12 Education Funding in Alberta (Dr. Curtis Riep, for Public School Boards' Association of Alberta, 2021)

Privatizing Public Choice: The Past, Present, and Future of Charter Schools in Alberta (Dr. Curtis Riep, for Public School Boards' Association of Alberta, 2020)

Charter schools: What you need to know about their anticipated growth in Alberta (Michael Mindzak, The Conversation, 07/07/20)

> External resources (International)

Opinion: After two decades of studying voucher programs, I'm now firmly opposed to them (J. Cowen, Hechinger Report, 20/07/22

School's out forever: Arizona moves "to kill public education" with new universal voucher law (K. Joyce, Salon, 01/07/22)

'School choice' policies are associated with increased separation of students by social class (Volante et al., The Conversation, 01/02/21)