User:Cmill98/Adriana LaGrange/Bibliography

Information from the Government of Alberta
LaGrange was elected in the riding of Red Deer-North on April 16th, 2019, and was appointed as Minister of Education on April 30th, 2019.

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Notable Events in the Legislature
June 5th, 2019, LaGrange introduces the new Education Act under the UCP government. LaGrange expresses it will have the most advanced Gay-Straight Alliances and Queer-Straight Alliances in all of Canada. LaGrange was critiqued by the leader of the opposition, Rachel Notley, that the proposed Education Act does not protect LGBTQ students, in which LaGrange responded with the procedures of forming a Gay–straight alliance, and assured Alberta schools already have strict policies that will protect LGBTQ students.

October 23rd, 2019. LaGrange announces that the UCP revised the usage of seclusion rooms in public schools, limiting them to situations of a "last resort".

On August 22nd, 2019, LaGrange appointed a panel of education experts from a variety of of school districts and post secondary institutions to oversee the previous legislation enacted by the NDP government. The panel is expected to report back to the UCP government by December 20th, 2019.

Groups Associated with, Personal Beliefs
Before politics, LaGrange was the president of Alberta Catholic Trustees' Association, vice-president of the Canadian Catholic School Trustees' Association, and a school trustee on the Red Deer Catholic School board since 2007. LaGrange moved to Red Deer in 1981. She also graduated with a diploma in Rehab Studies and has experience working with the physically and mentally disabled.

LaGrange is the former president of Red Deer pro-life, and was on the board of directors for Alberta pro-life.

2019 Election and Election Campaign
LaGrange campaigned on improving healthcare specifically in the Red Deer area, re-configuring the education system, lowering taxes, and job creation in Alberta.

LaGrange campaigned using various mediums such as door-to-door canvassing, hiring volunteers, and using social media.

In the 2019 Alberta Election, LaGrange won her riding of Red Deer-North with a total of 12,739 votes.


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