Edmonton public school teachers get more professional development money

Edmonton public school teachers will receive more money for individual professional development in a new contract ratified earlier this fall.
The district’s 6,400 teachers voted 93 per cent in favour of the one-year deal, which runs from Sept. 1, 2017, to Aug. 31, 2018.
“With what we’ve heard from teachers, they’re happy,” Heather Quinn, president of the Edmonton Public Teachers Local 37, said Friday.
For the first time in Alberta, teachers bargained their salaries