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Preliminary budget documents from Edmonton Public Schools predict the new government will end a $77-million fund that added hundreds more teachers and educational assistants to classrooms across the province.

The district’s high-level funding plan for the 2019-2020 school year also assumes the newly elected United Conservative Party government will provide roughly $29 million more in funding to pay for the 3,112 more students expected to enrol in Alberta’s second-largest school district.

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“What we heard the UCP say is that there weren’t going to be any funding cuts to education,” Edmonton public school board chairwoman Michelle Draper said in a Tuesday interview. “We have these students coming in September. There needs to be funding to support their education.”

There will be “implications” without that funding, she said.

“We would see potentially larger class sizes. We would see less supports in the schools for our students.”