Zwozdesky, Hon. Gene (PC, Edmonton-Mill Creek)
Aboriginal children-Education
Aboriginal land claims
Law suits against province re ... 1702-03
Alberta Cancer Prevention Legacy Act (Bill 1)
Second reading ... 182 Third reading ... 529
Alberta Catholic School Trustees' Association
Agreement re minority faith school support choice ... 539
Alberta Corporate Tax Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 34)
Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Ethical investments by, copy of policy re (M13/06: Defeated) ... 508
Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission
Minority faith support of public school system, investigation of complaint re ... 539
Alberta initiative for school improvement
Alberta/Lviv, Ukraine relations
Letter re (SP441/06: Tabled) ... 1120
Alberta Personal Income Tax Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 33)
Second reading ... 996 Third reading ... 1624
Alberta School Boards Association
Agreement re minority faith school support choice ... 539 Collective bargaining model for teachers ... 12, 1028 Consultation with, re boards' policies re anaphylactic schoolchildren ... 359 School council fund-raising comments ... 1587
Alberta School Foundation Fund
Alberta Securities Commission
Human resource issues in: BearingPoint Canada report on (M19/06: Defeated) ... 511 KPMG hired for forensic audit of employee e-mails: Report (M12/06: Defeated) ... 508
Alberta SuperNet
Education programs delivery via ... 1019, 1020
Alberta Teachers' Association
Annual report, 2004 (SP158/06: Tabled) ... 473 Collective bargaining model for teachers ... 12 Inclusion of principals in ... 84, 406, 1028
Alberta's Commission on Learning
Class size guideline ... 14, 404-05, 466, 1019-20, 1024, 1342, 1347, 1587, 1747 Kindergarten recommendations ... 640, 1027 Principals' membership in ATA recommendations ... 1028 Recommendations ... 12, 468, 1027, 1754 Teacher bargaining model recommendation ... 406
Alexander Forbes elementary school, Grande Prairie
Appropriation Act, 2006 (Bill 42)
Appropriation (Interim Supply) Act, 2006 (Bill 22)
Appropriation (Supplementary Supply) Act, 2006 (Bill 19)
Appropriation (Supplementary Supply) Act, 2006 (No. 2) (Bill 44)
BearingPoint Canada
Securities Commission employee complaints, report on (M19/06: Defeated) ... 511
Bowness high school
Health concerns in ... 791 Upgrading of ... 791
Calgary Board of Education
Enrollment policy for nonresident students ... 198, 246 Infrastructure debt ... 448 Marlborough school roof repair situation ... 447-48, 463, 492, 538, 542 New school construction ... 14, 172, 404-05, 448, 728, 1023 Provincial infrastructure funding for ... 448
Calgary Catholic Board of Education
Canada Health Act
Alberta's third way compliance with, documents re (M7/06: Defeated) ... 505-06
Cancer incidence-Fort Chipewyan
Emergency debate re (not proceeded with) ... 1360
Capital Health
Drinking water certification for Ellerslie school ... 245
Centennial high school, Calgary
Chief Electoral Officer
Appointment of new CEO (Lorne R. Gibson) (Motion 23: Zwozdesky) ... 1599
Children at risk-Education
Class size (Grade school)
General remarks ... 14, 404-05, 466, 728, 1027 Reduction of, funding for ... 466, 1019-20, 1024, 1116, 1342, 1347, 1397, 1587, 1671, 1747, 1749
Closure debate (Parliamentary practice)
Number of times used in past five years, report on (SP592/06: Tabled) ... 1551
Closure motions (Parliamentary practice) (2006)
Bill 20 (CoW), Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2006 (Motion 19: Zwozdesky) ... 1599-1600 Bill 20 (3r), Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2006 (Motion 20: Zwozdesky) ... 1650
Collective bargaining-Teachers
General remarks ... 406 Province-wide bargaining ... 12, 406, 1028 Province-wide bargaining: Government participation in ... 1028
Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, Standing
Membership change (Motion 17: Zwozdesky/Stevens) ... 876
Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing
Membership change (Motion 17: Zwozdesky/Stevens) ... 876
Committee on Members' Services, Special Standing
Membership change (Motion 17: Zwozdesky/Stevens) ... 876
Committee on Private Bills, Standing
Membership change (Motion 17: Zwozdesky/Stevens) ... 876
Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing, Standing
Membership change (Motion 17: Zwozdesky/Stevens) ... 876
Committee on Public Accounts, Standing
Membership change (Motion 17: Zwozdesky/Stevens) ... 876
Committees, Select standing
Membership changes to (Motion 17: Zwozdesky/Stevens) ... 876
Community facility enhancement program
Grant applications, rejected, 1998-2005 (Q22/06: Accepted) ... 1562 Grant applications awarded without matching funds, 1998-2005 (Q23/06: Accepted) ... 1562 Playground equipment funding ... 1587
Community initiatives program
Grants awarded without matching funds, 1998-2005 (Q20/06: Accepted) ... 1552 Grants rejected, 1998-2005 (Q21/06: Accepted) ... 1561 Playground equipment funding ... 1587
Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
Supplementary estimates 2006-07: Debated ... 1702-03
Dept. of Education
Budget process ... 1752 Business plan ... 1019 Business plan, 2006-09 (SP443/06: Tabled) ... 1120 Interim estimates 2006-07: Debated ... 314 Main estimates 2006-07: Debated ... 1018-20, 1022-24, 1027-29, 1032 Program delivery support services funding ... 1020 Return of school capital funding to ... 12, 14, 447, 463, 636, 728, 730, 1020, 1022 Role of ... 1018 Staffing ... 1024 Standardized testing office expansion ... 1342 Supplementary estimates 2006-07: Debated ... 1746-47, 1749, 1751-54 Support services ... 1019 System improvement and reporting division: Expenses of (Q32/06: Accepted) ... 1733 System improvement and reporting division: Performance measures re (Q31/06: Accepted) ... 1732
Dept. of Health and Wellness
Minister's travel expenses (M16/06: Response tabled as SP706/06) ... 510 Survey/opinion polls by, results (M8/06: Defeated) ... 506
Dept. of Human Resources and Employment
Supplementary estimates 2006-07: Debated ... 1706
Deputy Ministers (Provincial government)
Disabled children-Education
Funding for aides re ... 1749
Disabled children-Education-Finance
Early childhood education
Edmonton Catholic School District
Deficit ... 11-12 School maintenance funding ... 1752
Edmonton Public School Board
Aboriginal programs ... 1029 City centre education project: Junior kindergarten funding ... 1643-44, 1751, 1806 Class size reduction, funding for ... 1347 Deficit ... 1347 Funding ... 1587, 1670 Kindergarten programs ... 1029 School council fund-raising survey ... 1587 School maintenance funding ... 1752
Education
Access to, by nonresident students ... 198, 246
Education, Postsecondary
Requirements for, home-schooled students acquisition of ... 1066
Education-Alberta
Hisorical perspective ... 1032
Education-Curricula
Career and life management course ... 1453 Exemptions from, due to moral/religious beliefs ... 1453 Funding for development of ... 1752 Math curricula (compound interest topic) ... 404 Support services for ... 1020
Education-Finance
General remarks ... 14, 728, 730, 1019, 1065-66, 1116, 1397-98, 1587, 1589-90, 1670, 1671, 1686-87, 1746-47, 1754 Ipsos-Reid opinion poll re ... 1027 Lethbridge funding ... 1065-66, 1116 Off-budget spending ... 1022 Operational funding ... 1019 Program unit funding ... 1019, 1029 User fees ... 329, 1751
Ellerslie elementary school
Emergency debates under Standing Order 30
Health issues in Fort Chipewyan (not proceeded with) ... 1360 Persons with disabilities funding cuts (not proceeded with) ... 23
English as a Second Language
Ethics Commissioner
Letter to Premier re postemployment restrictions (SP428/06: Tabled) ... 1069
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Request for private health insurance cost-benefit analyses under ... 510 Request for third-party information under ... 506, 510
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 20)
Time allocation motion re (3r) (Motion 20: Zwozdesky) ... 1650 Time allocation motion re (CoW) (Motion 19: Zwozdesky) ... 1599-1600
Frère Antoine elementary school
Wheelchair accessibility of ... 1754
Government spending policy
General remarks ... 636 Off-budget spending ... 636, 1022
Governor General of Canada
Address to Assembly (Motion 18: Zwozdesky/Renner) ... 1174
Grant MacEwan Community College
Health issues-Fort Chipewyan
Emergency debate re (not proceeded with) ... 1360
High school completion
General remarks ... 1029, 1032 Impact of non-access for nonresident students on ... 198, 246 Symposium on ... 199, 1032, 1751
High school education-Curricula
Work experience programs ... 1063
High school education-Finance
Credit enrollment unit funding ... 1032, 1749 Credit enrollment unit funding, recovery of overspending discovered during audits of ... 1032
High school graduates
Numbers of: Transition to postsecondary education ... 1032
Holyrood elementary school
Upgrading/maintenance requirements ... 1752
Home education
Criteria for, re postsecondary requirements ... 1066 General remarks ... 1454 Testing/curricula re ... 1066, 1454
Home education-Regulations
Review of ... 1454 Updated regulation re ... 1066
Insurance, Health (Private)
Cost-benefit analyses re (M17/06: Defeated) ... 510
Ipsos-Reid
Education funding opinion poll ... 1027
Jerry Potts elementary school, Calgary
KPMG consulting
Alberta Securities Commission employees' e-mails, forensic audit of: Report (M12/06: Defeated) ... 508
Learner pathways initiative
A Learning Alberta review
Costs of (Q24/06: Accepted) ... 1563
Learning Resources Centre
B.C. government purchases from ... 1020 Funding for ... 1752
Legislative Assembly Chamber
Address by former MLA Mr. Ray Speaker on floor of, on occasion of Assembly's 100th anniversary (Motion 11: Hancock/Zwozdesky) ... 390
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
100th anniversary: Mr. Ray Speaker addresses the Assembly on occasion of (Motion 11: Hancock/Zwozdesky) ... 390 Governor General's address to (Motion 18: Zwozdesky/Renner) ... 1174
Legislative Assembly of Alberta-Adjournment
Easter recess (Motion 13: Hancock/Zwozdesky) ... 529 Fall sittings (Motion 26: Zwozdesky) ... 1760 Spring recess (Motion 12: Hancock/Zwozdesky) ... 529 Summer recess (Motion 14: Hancock/Zwozdesky) ... 529
Legislature Building
Virtual Visit project re ... 1454-55
Lethbridge School District #51
Long-term disability income continuance plan
Funding for increased benefits under ... 1706
Lottery Fund
Grant cheques from, presentation by local MLAs: Point of Order re ... 1552
Marlborough elementary school
Medical care
Restructuring (third way option): Documents, memos re (M7/06: Defeated) ... 505-06 Restructuring (third way option): Opinions/survey results re (M8/06: Defeated) ... 506
Medical care, Private
Meetings of private companies with government re (M18/06: Defeated) ... 510
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Presentation of cheques re government programs: Point of Order re ... 1552
Mentally disabled
Funding for programs for: Emergency debate re (not proceeded with) ... 23
Microsoft Corporation
School software licences purchase by provincial government: Documents re (M27/05: Response tabled as SP67/06) ... 202
Ministers (Provincial government)
Car allowance ... 1341-42 Postemployment restrictions on, letter from Ethics Commissioner re (SP428/06: Tabled) ... 1069
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 43)
Second reading ... 1615 Third reading ... 1659
Miscellaneous (Provincial Treasurer) Statutes Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 37)
Natural Resources Transfer Agreement
Aboriginal law suits re ... 1702-03
Northern Alberta Development Council
Youth apprenticeship program ... 1032, 1063
Nutrition education for schoolchildren
Obesity in children
Reduction of, by removing junk food from schools ... 543
Office of the Premier
Premier's retirement: Ethics Commissioner 's letter on postemployment restrictions re (SP428/06: Tabled) ... 1069 Tributes to the Premier ... 1680
Oral Question Period (2006)
Access to education by nonresident students ... 198-99, 246 Alexander Forbes elementary school ... 836-37 Bowness high school ... 791 City centre early education project ... 1643-44 Class size reduction ... 466 Collective bargaining for teachers ... 406 Early education for at-risk children ... 1806-07 Edmonton Catholic school board deficit ... 11-12 Education achievement testing ... 168-69 Education funding ... 14, 1342, 1397-98, 1587, 1589-90, 1670, 1671, 1686-87 Education funding for Lethbridge ... 1065-66, 1116 Education issues ... 1063 Freedom of choice ... 1453 Freedom of choice in supporting school systems ... 539 Home education ... 1454 Home schooling ... 1066 Kindergarten programs ... 640, 1518 Learning Commission recommendations ... 12, 468 Legislative Assembly Virtual Visit project ... 1454-55 Marlborough elementary school ... 447-48, 492 New school construction in Calgary ... 404-05 Nutrition programs in schools ... 543, 1061 Professional organization for school principals ... 84 School class sizes ... 1347 School construction in Airdrie-Chestermere ... 1848 School fundraising ... 1587-88 School infrastructure ... 448 School infrastructure funding ... 730 School infrastructure in Calgary ... 172, 463-64, 538, 542, 728, 934 School infrastructure maintenance ... 730-31 School lunchtime supervision fees ... 329 School nutrition programs ... 1341-42 Schoolchildren with anaphylaxis ... 359-60 Special-needs education ... 964 Special-needs education funding ... 466, 467 Teachers' unfunded pension liability ... 169-70, 403-04 Unbudgeted spending ... 636 Water quality at Ellerslie elementary school ... 197, 245
Personal Information Protection Act Review Committee, Select Special
Establishment of (Motion 22: Zwozdesky) ... 1598-99
Physical fitness-Teaching
Daily mandatory activities ... 543
Point of Order
Allegations against a member ... 230, 1552 Allegations against members ... 1526 False allegations ... 223 Imputing motives ... 384 Parliamentary language ... 1583, 1634, 1651 Referring to nonmembers ... 1810 Sub judice rule ... 203 Tabling cited documents ... 941
Portable/modular classrooms
Property tax-Education levy
Protection of Fundamental Freedoms (Marriage) Statutes Amendment Act, 2006 (Bill 208)
Public Affairs Bureau Review Committee
Meeting minutes (M2/06: Defeated) ... 503 Report of (M4/06: Defeated) ... 504 Submissions received by (M1/06: Defeated) ... 503
Public School Boards Association of Alberta
Agreement re minority faith school support choice ... 539
Registered apprenticeship program (High schools)
Same-sex marriage
Exemption from instruction re ... 1453
School Act
Enrollment provisions for nonresident students ... 198 Exemption of students from instruction on moral/religious grounds ... 1453 Minority faith support of public school system provision, amendment of ... 539 School fees provisions ... 329
School age
Leaving age: Increase in, proclamation of Bill 203 (2003) re ... 1032
School (Compulsory Attendance) Amendment Act, 2003 (Bill 203, 2003)
School boards
Budget process ... 1342, 1347, 1398, 1587, 1670, 1751, 1754 Capital project planning ... 730, 791, 1686-87 Collective bargaining model for teachers, study of ... 406 Enrollment policy for nonresident students ... 198, 246 Financial statements, 2003-04, sections 1-3 (SP444-446/06: Tabled) ... 1120 Funding for ... 1686, 1747 Funding for: Renewed funding framework ... 1019, 1116, 1589, 1806 Funding for: Renewed funding framework advisory committee ... 1589 Kindergarten programs ... 640 Nutritional programs in schools ... 1341-42 Policy re anaphylaxic schoolchildren ... 359-60 Same-sex orientation, flexibility in instruction re ... 1453
School lunchtime supervision
School principals
Inclusion in Alberta Teachers' Association ... 84, 406, 1028
School systems tax support
Schoolchildren-Transportation
Schoolchildren with anaphylaxis
School procedures re ... 359-60
Schools
Minority faiths' support of, choice re ... 539 Upgrading of ... 791, 1747 Upgrading of: Conformity to utilization formula ... 791 Upgrading of: Due to class size initiative ... 1019, 1024
Schools-Calgary
Toxic mould testing in ... 464
Schools-Construction-Airdrie-Chestermere constituency
Schools-Construction-Calgary
Schools-Construction-Edmonton
Schools-Construction-Grande Prairie
Schools-Maintenance and repair
Funding for ... 636, 729-30, 836-37, 1020, 1022, 1024, 1028, 1066, 1687, 1747, 1749, 1752, 1753-54 General remarks ... 448, 538, 791
Schools-Maintenance and repair-Calgary
Schools for tomorrow action plan
Separate schools
Minority faiths' support of, choice re ... 539
Speaker, Mr. Ray (Former MLA)
Address to the Assembly, on occasion of Assembly's 100th anniversary (Motion 11: Hancock/Zwozdesky) ... 390
Speech from the Throne
Address in reply, engrossed (Motion 10: Klein/Zwozdesky) ... 390
Standard and Poor's Corporation
Comment on Alberta's fiscal strategy (SP666/06: Tabled) ... 1724
Standing Orders
Revised version dated May 15, 2006 (Motion 21: Zwozdesky) ... 1596
Student financial aid
Loan and loan relief payments, 2000-05 (Q25/06: Accepted) ... 1563
Student Health Initiative
Student testing
Achievement tests ... 168-69 Achievement tests: Costs of administering, 2000-05 (Q40/05: Response tabled as SP43/06) ... 88 Diagnostic tests ... 168-69, 1027 Diploma exams: Method for equating, studies re (M49/05: Response tabled as SP400/06) ... 968
Teachers
Hiring of, due to class size initiative ... 1020, 1024, 1116, 1342, 1347, 1747 Numbers of ... 1116, 1342, 1397, 1587, 1670, 1671 Stability in hiring of ... 1754
Treaty 7 and 8 First Nations
Land claim law suits against province ... 1702-03
Varsity Acres kindergarten
Vending machines in schools
Removal of junk food from ... 543
Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts, Edmonton
West Lethbridge high school (joint-use facility)
Provincial funding for ... 1066
Wild Rose Foundation
Grants from: Investigated due to improper use of (Q3/06: Response tabled as SP216/06) ... 501
Young adults
Provincial initiatives re: Involvement of youth in (Motion 503: Danyluk ) ... 389
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