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A provincial service offering correspondence and online courses for K-12 students is closing three of its four offices, and may shut down during the summers, its superintendent said.

These changes could be part of a major restructuring of the Barrhead-based Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC), which serves 30,000 students across the province. It may lead to some jobs moving, or being eliminated.

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The centre offers backup to schools across the province when students can’t fit a required class in their schedule, will miss a lot of class for athletics or travel, or are too sick to go to school, among other reasons.

As ADLC negotiates a new service agreement with the provincial government, David Garbutt expects the government to reduce its $17.6 million annual budget. Garbutt is superintendent of Pembina Hills Public Schools, which is contracted by the provincial government to run ADLC.