Education Minister Mitzie Hunter announced a funding boost for education on Wednesday, with a focus on providing more special education support and reducing class sizes. The education funding includes money to hire hundreds more special education teachers and support workers based on local need, and capping class sizes in full-day kindergarten as well as grades 4 through 8. The news was welcomed as a step in the right direction by advocates, school boards and unions, who said it was good for students. It comes at a time when special education services cannot keep up with the demand and teachers have been clamouring for more resources. “If this means there are more educational assistants and more special education teachers, then that will be a good result,” said Kidder.

Source: thestar April 13, 2017 09:02 UTC