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Charter schools are independent of district school authorities and do not have public oversight. Each has its own board with powers similar to a district authority, but limited to a single school. [citation needed] Alberta has 21 charter school authorities which operate a total of 36 schools. [1] [2] Alberta Classical Academy Ltd. Almadina ...
The northern two thirds of Alberta, including Edmonton, received area code 780, while leaving 403 to serve Calgary and southern Alberta. The projected exhaust dates for area codes 403 and 780 were March and October 2009, respectively. In 1997, two area codes, 587 and 825, were reserved by Bellcore for Alberta. [1] The first of the new area ...
Edmonton is at the centre of Canada's sixth-largest census metropolitan area (CMA), [115] which includes Edmonton and 34 other municipalities in the surrounding area. [116] Larger urban communities include Sherwood Park (an urban service area within Strathcona County ), the cities of St. Albert , Beaumont , Leduc , Spruce Grove and Fort ...
This is a list of senior high schools in Alberta accredited by Alberta Education. [1]The listed schools include public, separate, private and charter high schools, as well as all other organizations accredited to teach high school courses, including outreach schools, adult education schools, distant learning and homeschooling coordination centres, and coordination centres for in place ...
Statistics Canada divides the province of Alberta into nineteen census divisions. Unlike in some other provinces, census divisions do not reflect the organization of local government in Alberta. These areas exist solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government of their own.
East Central Alberta Catholic Separate Schools Regional Division No. 16; East Central Francophone Education Region No. 3; Edmonton Public Schools; Edmonton Catholic School Division; Elk Island Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 41; Elk Island Public Schools; Evergreen Catholic Separate School Division
Alberta's oldest university is the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The University of Calgary, once affiliated with the University of Alberta, gained its autonomy in 1966 and is now the second largest university in Alberta. The University of Lethbridge has campuses in Lethbridge, Calgary, and Edmonton. Athabasca University focuses on distance ...
The Calgary-Edmonton Corridor is the most urbanized region in the province and one of the densest in Canada. The region covers a distance of roughly 400 km (250 mi) north to south. In 2001, the population of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor was 2.15 million (72% of Alberta's population). [97]