Class is in session: What to expect this school year

VICTORIA — Parents looking for dramatic change in B.C.’s school system this year may instead find progress being made more slowly than expected on the promises of lower class sizes, more teachers, better equipment and fewer portables.
Teachers, school boards and the provincial government say they’ve made big strides toward the goal of 3,700 new teachers, following a hiring spree last year that was the result of the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that restored class size and com