Crowded rooms: Class sizes surged in Alberta schools as spending remained untracked, new data shows

As Alberta taxpayers poured hundreds of millions of dollars every year into a program to curtail large class sizes, more and more classes across the province failed to meet government guidelines in the last 14 years.
A Postmedia analysis of a trove of data published online by Alberta Education shows that larger-than-recommended class sizes initially dropped during the first few years of targeted investments through its high-profile class size initiative.
In 2009, the trend reversed, and the numb