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ATA condemns education funding freeze

The President of the Alberta Teachers Association isn’t happy with the latest provincial budget.

Carol Henderson says freezing education funding is a bad move when more students are enrolling.

“We know that number is eleven or twelve thousand,” she said, “and they’ll be wedged into already-crowded classrooms, with no new teachers, and no supports.”

Henderson says classroom instruction will suffer, and boards across the province will have to cut teaching positions.

“I would encourage teachers to get out there, talk to their MLAs, talk to the parents, and talk to the community members, and make sure that people fully understand what’s going to be happening in Alberta classrooms in the fall,” she said.

Henderson says she wonders where the money to operate new schools that are being built will come from.

March 8, 2013