Ned Yeung 🍉'As the Alberta government legislated a swift end to October’s provincial teachers’ strike, it promised to address concerns about classrooms crowded with students who have increasingly diverse needs.
Among the commitments now inscribed in its Back to School Act is a requirement to pay for 3,000 more teaching positions during the next three school years.
But what wasn't clear is that the 2025-26 provincial budget had already allocated funding for exactly this purpose.
The budget — passed months before teachers walked off the job on Oct. 6 — had allocated $750 million for hiring 3,000 more teachers by 2028, says the education ministry.
“It’s one more in a series of deceptions and betrayals of students and of the interests of public education by a government that has proven themselves utterly indifferent to the well-being of students and the conditions in schools,” said Peter MacKay, a Grade 7 and 8 teacher in Grande Prairie, Alta.'
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