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Amid ongoing challenges of growing enrolment and flat funding for next year, public school officials are still hoping for a “near-normal” return to class this fall with a significant drop in COVID-related costs.
As trustees with the Calgary Board of Education consider the 2021-22 operating budget this week, officials remain optimistic that all students will be able to benefit from in-person learning next year, with few disruptions like the ones they’ve faced since March 2020.
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Amid ongoing challenges of growing enrolment and flat funding for next year, public school officials are still hoping for a “near-normal” return to class this fall with a significant drop in COVID-related costs.
As trustees with the Calgary Board of Education consider the 2021-22 operating budget this week, officials remain optimistic that all students will be able to benefit from in-person learning next year, with few disruptions like the ones they’ve faced since March 2020.
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Questions are being raised about whether Calgary students in grades 7 to 12 should return to class next week as scheduled, given rising variant infections and a record number of schools with COVID cases.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, confirmed Tuesday that 29 per cent of schools, a total of 712 across Alberta, now have active alerts or outbreaks of COVID.
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And of the 1,539 new cases reported Tuesday, 812 are variants of concern, known to be more contagious and more dangerous to young people.
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Questions are being raised about whether Calgary students in grades 7 to 12 should return to class next week as scheduled, given rising variant infections and a record number of schools with COVID cases.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, confirmed Tuesday that 29 per cent of schools, a total of 712 across Alberta, now have active alerts or outbreaks of COVID.
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And of the 1,539 new cases reported Tuesday, 812 are variants of concern, known to be more contagious and more dangerous to young people.
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Students in grades 7 to 12 at Calgary public and Catholic schools will temporarily shift to at-home learning for at least two weeks, the province announced Wednesday, as it reported more than 1,400 new COVID-19 cases across Alberta.
Alberta Education said it approved requests from both the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District to shift to virtual classrooms starting Monday, due to a chronic substitute teacher shortage and a “significant number of students and staff” in quarantine or isolation. It also cited recent requests for short-term shifts for a number of schools and “substantial COVID-19 cases in the community.”