In Alberta, where there are two publicly funded school systems again, two fine school systems I chaired a separate school system, but we worked very cooperatively with the public school system.

It is necessary to strengthen the intensity and extent of European cooperation between schools, and of the mobility of school staff and learners, in order to address the priorities set out in the Agenda for European Cooperation on Schools for the 21st century, namely to improve the quality of school education in the Union in the fields of competence development and in order to improve equity and inclusion within school systems and institutions, as well as to reinforce and provide support for the teaching profession and school leadership.

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should adopt Shannen's Dream by: (a) declaring that all First Nation children have an equal right to high-quality, culturally-relevant education; (b) committing to provide the necessary financial and policy supports for First Nations education systems; (c) providing funding that will put reserve schools on par with non-reserve provincial schools; (d) developing transparent methodologies for school construction, operation, maintenance and replacement; (e) working collaboratively with First Nation leaders to establish equitable norms and formulas for determining class sizes and for the funding of educational resources, staff salaries, special education services and indigenous language inst ...[+++]ruction; and (f) implementing policies to make the First Nation education system, at a minimum, of equal quality to provincial school systems.

(a) declaring that all first nation children have an equal right to high-quality, culturally-relevant education; (b) committing to provide the necessary financial and policy supports for first nations education systems; (c) providing funding that will put reserve schools on par with non-reserve provincial schools; (d) developing transparent methodologies for school construction, operation, maintenance and replacement; (e) working collaboratively with first nation leaders to establish equitable norms and formulas for determining class sizes and for the funding of educational resources, staff salaries, special education services and indigenous language instruction; and (f) implementing polices to make the first nation education system, a ...[+++]t a minimum, of equal quality to provincial school systems.

The Recommendation encourages all those involved in the school system (teachers, pupils, parents and specialists) to take part in the processes of self-assessment and external assessment. It states that the aim of external assessment is to provide both methodological support for school self-evaluation and an objective view of the school.

7. improve the quality of their school systems in order to reduce substantially the number of young people who drop out of the school system early.