Fewer public school teachers; growing class sizes
Posted May 29, 2012 6:17 am.
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Even with a few extra hires ahead of the upcoming school year, there will still be fewer public school teachers than there were four years ago.
The Calgary Board of Education budget for the 2012-13 year is going to a vote Tuesday.
If adopted, 78 full-time teachers will be added to the roster of 5,777; but even then, there would still be 193 fewer teachers than in the 2009-10 school year.
Meanwhile, enrolment has increased nearly four per cent over the last five years.
The superintendent in charge of CBE Learning Innovation tells The Calgary Herald teachers are adapting to larger classes by having kids do more group work or teaching them to find information themselves.
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