Edmonton school boards frustrated by modular classroom process
Among Edmonton schools, every new year is a game of Tetris.
While enrolment booms in the suburbs, the number of children in some mature areas wanes. School boards manage the flux with modular classrooms — tacking on new rooms where they’re needed, and sometimes shunting them across town as demographics shift.
Edmonton Catholic and public school boards say they need more modulars than they’re receiving, and an aging stock of portable classrooms is a looming problem.
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