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The provincial government says three Calgary school construction projects may face delays, though one is already underway and another has no set timetable.

In its first quarter financial update released earlier this week, the NDP government announced it had scaled back capital spending by $398 million compared to the spring budget, with $260 million in capital spending for schools deferred to future years.

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The list of education projects whose funding has been shifted include two Calgary schools which are slated for modernization: the Calgary Catholic School District’s St. Francis High School and the charter Foundations for the Future Academy high school.

Also shifted was funding for the Calgary Board of Education’s Chinook Learning Centre, which the province says is also a modernization but the CBE says will need a new building.

Aileen Machell, press secretary for Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason, said in an email that school funding can be “reprofiled” for a number of reasons, including site selection issues, changes to project scope, weather and material and contractor delays.