REGINA – Saskatchewan schools are to have provincially regulated instruction time, standard testing and a scheduled start date – but no cap on class sizes.
Education Minister Russ Marchuk says the province won’t mandate how many kids can be in a class, even though there are cases where he says class sizes are not ideal.
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Marchuk, a former teacher, says schools should, in his words, “distribute some resources” to deal with class sizes.
NDP education critic David Forbes says some classrooms are bursting, especially in Saskatoon and Regina, and that means less time to focus on individual students.
Forbes says one school in Saskatoon will have 95 kindergarten students in the fall.
He says it would help to have standards for class sizes.
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