As Calgary students head back to school, some raise concerns about class sizes
The Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District note the province discontinued dedicated class size funding and monitoring during the 2020-21 school year.Both school systems say they continue to work to keep class sizes reasonable.
The CBE will see more than 126,000students enrolled district-wide this year, up more than 3,000 students since 2020-21. At least 600 of the new CBE students have moved to Calgary from Ukraine.Alberta teachers ‘narrowly’ vote to accept contract“We have been speaking with teachers about the complexity in the classrooms,” NDP Education Critic Sarah Hoffman said Thursday.
“At the same time we know that maybe Alberta students are still struggling with significant loss of learning,” continued Hoffman. Click to share quote on Twitter: "At the same time we know that maybe Alberta students are still struggling with significant loss of learning," continued Hoffman.“This is the year that we need to employ the most resources to make up for those gaps in learning that were not fault of their own, no fault of their parents.”
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