Missing the Mark: How Ontario’s education funding formula is shortchanging students

Missing the Mark -How Ontario’s education funding formula is shortchanging students

May 1, 2007 Hugh Mackenzie, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Conclusion (p.20):

“The identified gaps in the funding formula detract significantly from school boards’ ability to enhance programs to meet the needs of students at risk, either for demographic reasons or because their first language is not English.

These gaps also detract from the government’s effort to improve the physical standards of school infrastructure, particularly in major urban areas.

It is clear from the data that the funding shortfall is a substantial problem. It is equally clear that there is no solution to the problem if the government continues to insist on equality in funding [across the province], rather than equity in funding, as the objective of centralized education finance in Ontario.”

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