Alberta provides details on education funding, worries about overcrowded schools linger

Alberta’s government is investing what it says is a record amount of money in the education system over the next three years to tackle an enrolment boom that’s swept schools across the province.Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides provided more details about the province's plan for funding Alberta's education system on Wednesday.

Speaking at W.H. Croxford High School in Airdrie, Rocky VIew School Board chair Fiona Gilbert welcomed the investment but said more needed to be done to continue to support growing school divisions. "We're seeing people from across Canada and around the world making the choice to move here," Nicolaides said. "This has also meant that we are seeing more and more students register in our schools."However, K-12 schools are chronically underfunded, according to the Alberta Teachers' Association. The union has said there needs to be at least an additional 6,000 teachers to alleviate the issues the education system has.

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