3000 teachers over 3 years on top of attrition is not a reasonable amount when there’s over 1500 public schools in Alberta, and public schools are currently increasing in enrollment by about 15,000 students per year. This is not a commitment that requires the UCP to do anything different; all governments usually increase funding to meeting increasing enrollment without it written into the CBA, and even this number is insufficient.
UCP throws that number around because they know it looks like a large number on paper. Funding per student is a much better metric to look at.
For example, if AB funds public schools to the national average, Bowness High School would be hiring 25 teachers right now. Instead they are offered a pittance of ~2 teachers over the next 3 years.
It’s been posted here before but do check out
http://abteach.cc/studentfundingcalculator