EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday, as thousands of striking teachers and their supporters chanted and shouted nearby, that she wants to form a commission on education when the provincewide strike is over.

Smith said she wants to see a negotiated settlement with the union representing the 51,000 teachers, who walked off the job Oct. 6.

Then the province will need "new models" to ensure issues like classroom complexity get addressed, she told reporters at an Edmonton Chamber of Commerce event.

"We think that this issue around complexity is the one that we hear about from teachers, that the specialized learning needs a little bit more 'hands on'," Smith said.

"I'd love to ... put a commission together with teachers to figure out how we do that."

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