Hundreds of parents flocked to the Legislature Sunday, demanding the province allocate more cash for education.

As teachers face growing class sizes and the Edmonton Public School Board having to cut hundreds of teaching jobs for next year, more than 200 people gathered on the legislative grounds – asking the province to reconsider cuts to education funding.

"Unfortunately, we are losing a lot of really good teachers and support staff," Edmonton Public School Trustee Sarah Hoffman said at Sunday's rally.

The public school board announced this week it will have to cut more than two hundred teachers in the new school year to keep its budget balanced.

Earlier this week, the education minister spoke on the budget cuts, putting the responsibility on school boards to make it work.

"We know there are $340 million in reserves across the province," Dave Hancock said Tuesday. "We've asked all school boards to look at what they are doing to see what we can stop doing, what we can change."

Hancock said class sizes will only grow slightly, and that most of the teacher cuts will be through retirement.

Last year, parents and school boards went through a similar process. In the end, the province came up with millions of dollars over the summer, and hundreds of teachers kept their jobs.

With files from Kevin Armstrong