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Despite the province's announcement on July 16 that thousands of additional teachers would be hired to reduce class sizes, there were only 38 more teachers employed in the province at the end of September than there were at the end of the last school year.
Teacher count data is supplied to the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) on a monthly basis by school boards. In September, school boards reported that there were 32,523 full- and part-time teachers in Alberta classrooms as compared to 32,485 full-and part-time teachers in May. Across the province, there had been an increase of 415 in the number of full-time teachers, offset by a decrease of 377 in the number of part-time teachers. Overall, there...