Editorial: Class sizes still matter

The government of Alberta paid out $293 million in the 2017-18 fiscal year to Alberta’s school boards to reduce the number of students in classrooms. This same program has received $2.7 billion since it began in 2004.
For all the good that this vast sum has done as it failed to achieve its intended purpose, the province might as well have slapped paste on those dollars and used them to paper classroom walls or shovelled them into blazing boilers to heat our schools. Those are wild exaggera