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We are out of closed session. Teachers at #ARA2024 have approved the Association's line-by-line budget for 2024/25. #ARA2024 #abed

Delegates have passed the budget with an annual fee set at $1,422 for full time teachers and $213.30 for associate members. #ARA2024

Delegates are debating a resolution that would see the ATA provide a funding framework to support the establishment and operation of diversity and equity networks for members. #ARA2024

A resolution that would create an Indigenous Education Initiatives Grant program to support member projects towards fulfillment of Canada's TRCC Calls to Action and the National Inquiry into MMIWG, has passed. #TRC #ARA2024

Resolution 3-45 is carried unanimously.

Teachers at #ARA2024 are discussing a resolution "that Alberta students deserve better than to have the lowest-funded public education system in Canada" #abed #ableg

Teachers are sharing passionate and heartfelt personal accounts of their challenges with class size and complexity to show support for this important directive. #ARA2024 #abed #stoptheexcuses

💰 📉Alberta spends the least on Public Education per student in all of Canada. It's time to right the wrongs. It's time for solutions, #StopTheExcuses bit.ly/43x28ow

Thank you @CTFFCE president Heidi Yetman for your inspiring words to delegates today! #ARA2024

ATA president Jason Schilling presents our highest award of Honorary Membership to Dr. Calvin Fraser. "Your dedication to public education & teachers speaks not only to your core values but also the principled way you interacted with students, parents, and colleagues" #ARA2024

As many Albertans prepare to spend the first long weekend of the summer relaxing, over 400 teacher delegates will come together in #yyc for the Annual Representative Assembly to debate important policies and the budget for the upcoming year. #ARA2024 #abed