Edmonton Public Schools expects to cut 431 full-time positions hired for COVID-19 pandemic, majority teachers
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Edmonton schools will offer online and in-person classes this fall
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EDMONTON The Edmonton Public School Board is encouraging parents to start thinking ahead to the next school year. EPSB is looking at having all students back for the second half of the upcoming school year. Parents can choose if they want their child learning online or in-person for the first semester. Parents can sign up starting June 21st. The deadline is August 12. Teachers want their kids back. You walk into your school and you feel the energy of a school environment,” said Kathy Muhlethaler, assistant superintendent of operations and learning for EPSB. “I think we have kids that are online, that are doing online learning are really missing their friends and missing that interaction and so we just felt that for that first half of the year that we have to give options for families.”
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K-12 students in Edmonton’s public system can learn online again for the first half of the 2021-2022 year, but will lose their connection to a local school if they extend it to the full school year.
Parents will choose between in-person or online instruction based out of their local school with the expectation all teaching will happen in classrooms by January 2022. Any children who opt to be online for the whole year will need to enrol at Argyll Centre, a fully-online K-12 school run by the district.
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