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Lorne Gunter: More teachers need to magically appear after Alberta injects money

There will now be nearly one complexity team for every four high-needs classrooms in the province. That should start to make a dent in the problem.

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On Monday, the provincial government announced another $100 million this year to hire an additional 379 “classroom complexity teams” (typically one teacher and two educational assistants), on top of the 476 teams it funded last February.

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