Alberta Voter Guide: 2025 School Trustee Election

On October 20th Albertans have an opportunity to cast their votes and make an impact on Alberta’s education landscape!

Use this resource help you to know your candidates and ensure that you are voting for someone who will best represent your values.

This is an opportunity that only comes around every four years so make your vote count!

Our future generations depend on our wise choices today.

 

Step 1: Know your School Authority Jurisdiction.

This map shows the Public Jurisdictions.

This map shows the Separate School Jurisdictions.

This map shows the Francophone Jurisdictions.

 

Step 2: Know your candidates.

PCE will compile Trustee Voter Guides for the following 57 school divisions in Alberta.

Where possible, we will include multiple sources of information, including personal websites, social media pages, profiles and videos provided by the school district, various relevant news articles, and responses received to the PCE questionnaire.

Update:

Parents for Choice in Education has endorsed five candidates for the Calgary Public School Board race. You can view our press release here.

Find Your School Board

Click your school board below to view trustee candidates in your area.

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For Albertans whose school district is not listed here: search on your school district’s website and look for information related to trustee elections. If you can’t find election information, please contact your district directly and ask them.  As a constituent you are entitled access to a list of candidates and should be able to contact them.

 

PCE Questionnaire

All candidates listed in the Voter Guides will receive our PCE Questionnaire. Those who submit their response will have their answers included in this resource.  We appreciate each candidate who responded honestly, regardless of whether or not their stance is aligned with PCE's particular advocacy positions.

 

Why are school board trustees important? Who gets to vote for them?

Every four years, during municipal elections, school trustees are elected to govern each of Alberta's 62 public, separate (Catholic) and Francophone school divisions.

School board trustees have many responsibilities, including, but not limited to:

  • Establishing the mission, vision, values for the school division
  • Setting policies – for example, recent decisions regarding health measures enforced in schools, or whether to keep secrecy policies put in place during the NDP years (most areas of Alberta still have them in place!).
  • Managing budgets ranging from multi-millions in some areas to more than one billion dollars each (!) for Calgary & Edmonton - keep in mind this is money paid for directly from taxpayers, with up to 30% of your property tax going directly to the province for education.
  • Advocating for local program and facility needs.
  • Hiring the superintendent who carries out the operational duties of the board.

Trustees can also have a significant impact on parental choice in education, both within their own school division and beyond.  

Even if you have don’t have a child in school, or a child in the public or Catholic school system, all Albertans of voting age get to cast a vote in trustee elections because we all pay taxes to fund the system and all reap the consequences of how it is managed, whether wisely or poorly. 

Take the time to get to know your candidates and VOTE WISELY. The future of education in Alberta depends on you!

 

Want to do more? 

In the final weeks and days before October 20th, candidates will be busy delivering flyers to  doorsteps, putting up signs and making phone calls to supporters to remind them to vote.

As you learn about the candidates you may want to lend extra support to one of them, even if they are not in the same specific area or ward. If so, we encourage you to send them an email and let them know you want to help them with their campaign. 

Even 1-2 hours of your time before the Oct 20th election can make a tremendous difference as to which candidates will sit on the future board of trustees in your district.

Another way to support a candidate is through financial donations to strengthen their campaign. Look on their website for a DONATE button or send them an email to offer your financial support.  *Note: PCE has not, and will not, provide any financial support to any electoral campaign or candidate.

 

For the sake of our children, grandchildren and the future direction of education in this province, let's work together to ensure the best possible candidates are elected to the important role of school board trustee in Alberta!

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