The Alberta government plans to use $400 million over the next three years — plus spending already earmarked in its existing budget documents — to pay for more teachers, educational assistants and better access to diagnostic testing, the education minister says.

As Premier Danielle Smith announced members of her new class size and complexity cabinet committee on Friday, co-chair and Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides said that committee doesn’t have the power to allocate more than that $400 million to improving the school conditions that led to an unprecedented provincewide teachers' strike last month.

“ I wouldn't discount it,” Nicolaides said of the promised funding increase. “I think it is a significant investment and I'm confident it will help move the needle in b

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