Kids Not Cuts AB

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St. Thomas Aquinas board chairwoman Sandra Bannard said the agreement and Johnson's determination to push it through undercuts the role of school boards as locally elected bodies representing communities:

Government bypasses collective bargaining and tries to impose legislated settlement: "The government is not funding public education adequately. Next school year, despite this settlement, we will have 11,000 new students squeezed into classrooms with $14.5 million less in funding. -Carol Henderson, President of the The Alberta Teachers' Association

"School administrators cut the $220,000 funding for the program that provided extra lessons in the Music Enrichment Programs for children in strings and choral music. The program has been operating for decades but is now a victim of the tight provincial education budget."

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