AB-006: Bill 6: Education (Prioritizing Literacy and Numeracy) Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2)

This bill primarily affects operators of accredited independent schools and private early childhood services programs in Alberta — think small private schools, Montessori programs, or daycare centres offering early learning programs. If you run one of these operations, you'll now be required to administer government-established literacy and numeracy screening tests for children from kindergarten through Grade 3, report results individually to parents, and submit detailed results (including individualized child data) to the provincial government. Larger independent school operators with administrative staff will be better positioned to handle the new reporting burden, but even smaller owner-operated programs will need to build these assessments into their regular programming and keep up with whatever forms and timelines the Minister sets by regulation.