CBE shuffles around programs and students for fall

The Calgary Board of Education is making changes to more than two dozen schools in the fall.

Many students switched to classrooms closer to home this year, as 14 new schools opened up.

Officials are now trying to make use of extra space and offset overcrowding.

CBE Spokesperson Carrie Edwards tells CityNews, entire grades or specialty programs like French Immersion may be moved from one school to another.

“I think the families that have been involved in this work have been well prepared that the decisions could go one way or another, and we have heard that they have made alternate arrangements depending on how the decisions may go,” she said.

But, she says no programs will be cut and no schools will be closed.

There are also considerations being made to address parents’ concerns.

“Keeping the students close to home, and things around transportation, and what we would do for students who may be one or two years into the school, would they be allowed to stay for the final year? Something we call ‘grandfathering’,” Edwards explained.

The recommendations will be finalized in March.

The proposed changes can be viewed on the CBE’s website, and parents can give feedback until January 20.

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