United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership candidate Jason Kenney says Premier Rachel Notley has no right telling Catholic educators how to teach Catholic values.
“It’s not for me or the premier to dictate to the Catholic education system how it teaches Catholic values,” Kenney told reporters following a leadership rally in southwest Edmonton Tuesday night.
Kenney was responding to questions about a proposed Catholic school board sexual education curriculum that both Education Minister David Eggen and Premier Rachel Notley have strongly rejected.
“The whole point of the Catholic education system is to be Catholic,” said Kenney, who attended a Catholic boarding school in Wilcox, Sask.
“Of course there should be a basic common curriculum in the school system,” he said.
Catholic, independent and charter schools will have different approaches to developing their curriculum, Kenney said, but pointed out that’s what makes them special.
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