Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not familiar with the program in Alberta that the Member is referring to. It might be a special program. In any school system, what we do in the school has a big impact on the children. Also, the activities and things that the students are involved with in the community have a big impact. It takes both the community and the teachers to work together in order to have a successful student.
I am not familiar with the program in Alberta and how they deal with those issues, but as part of the mandate of the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, we do look at the family and try to work with the family to be able to deal with those issues. Often there are social issues that cause students to either leave school, be sent home from school or suspended from school, or whatever things might be happening that make learning impossible.
I would be interested to know more about the school in Alberta and what their successes are. We do have a school improvement pilot project that is intended to look at things like that. School education authorities can apply for funding to try out some of these new ideas. If the Member would share with me the name of the school and what its programs are, I would be interested in giving it to the education authorities and telling them to give us a proposal on how they might improve their school similar to the Alberta one. Thank you.