About Laura Hack
Laura Hack is an experienced educator and mother with deep roots in Wards 3 & 4.
With her background in teaching in all grades, Laura Hack knows what helps students succeed in a classroom environment.
Laura is devoted to ensuring our public education system remains public. She is committed to supporting student success by ensuring board policy is transparent and accessible. In her first term Laura was chair of the board and championed the development of new schools in communities that are underserved.
Laura’s qualification include:
- Lifelong educator
- Board chair for her last term as well as committee member on 8 + board committees
- Longtime resident of Wards 3 & 4
Laura values community participation and is an active volunteer in serving her community. She’s seen the benefits of community involvement in her classroom and brings her passion for engaging community members into her role on the school board.
In Laura’s words:
If you want to learn more about Laura and see where she stands on critical issues facing Calgary public schools today, check out her responses to our Candidate Questionnaire:
I’m not looking to overhaul the CBE. We have great students who achieve incredibly well, great teachers and great staff in and out of schools. Are there improvements to be made? Always! We aren’t a static organization, and the world is ever changing as are the students we serve.
– Laura Hack
On ensuring public education funding:
It’s about understanding the data we have, and the story that accompanies that data to convince those in government why funding needs to keep pace with the needs of students and the actual cost of providing everything from heat and electricity to teachers in classrooms to pencils, paper, tools and technology for learning. It’s important to also have the general public have the same understanding as they are strong advocates alongside the board.
On class sizes and resourcing:
We need continuous advocacy for increasing space (new schools), and getting funding for more staff to support students and their needs. Ensuring that funds we do receive are used to most effectively support students using data based decision making.
On whether there is a role for privately delivered services in public education:
No, absolutely not. Full stop. A robustly funded public education system would be able to meet the needs of all students, reducing overall cost to taxpayers rather than having duplication of public and private (publicly funded) services. The best countries and economies in the world have had the best funded and singular public education systems in the world. I believe that isn’t just correlation but causation as well.