Alejandra Pulido-Guzman

Lethbridge Herald

The Alberta Teachers Association and Opposition NDP responded differently to Friday’s announcement by the UCP government that a class six and complexity cabinet committee had been struck.

Jason Schilling, president of the ATA said teachers have been sounding the alarm about what’s happening in their classrooms with overcrowding, rising complexity and a lack of supports for students and for too long those concerns were ignored.

“But the voices of 51,000 teachers and school leaders united through the largest job action in history, forced the Premier and the Minister of Education to confront what teachers, parents and students have been saying all along,” said Schilling.

He said the decision of the government to create the cabinet committee, coup

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