Parents of kids with disabilities suing Alberta get injunction as education strike drags on [Video]

A group of parents who are suing the Alberta government over kids with disabilities not being able to go to school amid the ongoing CUPE strike have achieved a win in court.

An interlocutory injunction has been granted, to come into effect next Thursday, Feb. 27, to halt a ministerial order by Alberta’s education minister that gave the Edmonton Public School Board permission to commence at-home learning for select students when support staff went on strike.

“The responses I’m receiving so far from families and parents affected is they feel seen. They’re very happy about this. It’s vindicated them,” said Orlagh O’Kelly, the lawyer representing a group of Edmonton parents of children with disabilities who said their Charter rights to education are being violated because of a decision made by Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.

He issued a ministerial order on Jan. 10, granting the Edmonton Public School Board permission to change the in-person education requirement only for complex-needs …