Alberta is failing to meet class-size targets

More than fifteen years after Alberta’s ballooning class sizes became a flashpoint in an acrimonious teachers’ strike, tales of classes that start the year with more students than desks remain common.
Parents speak of children competing for teachers’ attention, while teachers in turn struggle to meet dozens of students’ complex needs.
All this is despite high-profile class-size targets on the books and at least $2.7 billion of taxpayers’ money provided since 20