Education minister tweaks curriculum writing timeline

A new school curriculum for Grade 9 will be written and introduced to classrooms earlier than initially planned, the Alberta government announced Wednesday.
In its unprecedented six-year, $64-million effort to rewrite curriculum for all subjects in both English and French, the ministry of education had at first said it would write new expectations for Grade 9 and 10 students at the same time.
With drafts of the new K-4 curriculum released last month, eight working groups had recently begun pieci