'Depending on how discussions go today, more bargaining dates will be scheduled as needed'

Teachers rallied outside the Telus World of Science Tuesday morning as negotiations resumed between the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) and the Alberta government’s negotiator.

The province-wide strike that began Oct. 6 has 51,000 teachers, administrators, principals and vice-principals off school and the province’s 740,000 public and separate school students on an extended Thanksgiving break as negotiators grapple with teacher pay, classroom size and complexity issues.

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“Depending on how discussions go today, more bargaining dates will be scheduled as needed,” said a spokesperson for the ATA.

The province has a figure in mind, and there’s a hard funding envelope on which t

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