by the CBC
Alberta Education has reduced funding for a provincewide centre that offers online course. Teachers who instruct online and distance courses for Alberta students say their jobs are in jeopardy. Junior and senior high school students across the province can sign up for courses offered by the Alberta Distance Learning Centre if they live in rural areas that don’t offer them, or if they don’t go to a traditional school. But in September, Alberta Education cut the funding by about half to school boards that use the centre’s courses. Alberta Education had been covering the entire cost to the school boards plus 56 per cent of the distance learning centre’s expenses.
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