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The school re-entry plan allows schools and parents to adjust to learning over the new school year, while putting student and staff safety first. All school authorities must be prepared to transition among scenarios if the need arises during the year. Continue to follow the public health advice. LaGrange said input from the College of Alberta School Superintendents CASS and educators highlighted that students in grades 1 to 3 were the most affected by the pandemic and are struggling to catch up.

The province is currently gathering more information on where to make further funding commitments, she said. Meanwhile, Alberta Education has also decided to change the weighting of diploma exams from 30 per cent of a student's final mark to 10 per cent for the current school year,. The decision came in response to feedback from students, parents and others about stress and anxiety, LaGrange said.

Last school year, Alberta made diploma exams optional because of the interruptions to learning that the pandemic had caused. Students and educators recently urged the government to make both diploma exams and provincial achievement tests optional again this year.

LaGrange said reducing the exam's weighting is a move to ease stress but still provide students with "the crucial exam-writing experience they need — if they choose to go into post-secondary," she said. Many Grade 12 students have transitioned from in-class to online learning several times throughout the pandemic and some might not have written an exam at all, she added.

Letters have been sent from LaGrange and Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides to Alberta's post-secondary institutions advising of the change. Students in grades 1 to 3 have been heavily affected because those are the years when children develop their numeracy and writing skills, and many students in those groups need extra help, he said.