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1. Independent schools across Canada face diverse regulations

   Canada’s expanding independent school sector is rich in diversity. Not only are parents increasingly choosing from an array of independent schools for their children, but each province regulates and funds independent schools in diverse ...

2. Improving independent school regulation could improve choice for parents

   The costly government-regulated and government-run school systems inherited from the previous century appear unable to adequately serve modern expectations, prompting many to seek new principles to guide the development of better schools ...

3. Homeschooling in Canada continues to grow

   Every province in Canada over the 15-year period since 2000 showed a decline in the share of students attending a public school—while at the same time, the share of students attending independent schools increased. But it wasn’t only ...

4. Catholic schools popular with parents across Canada

   With plenty of recent attention on the question of government funding of Roman Catholic schools, it’s critical to consider the popularity of such schools, as measured by enrolments. A recent Fraser Institute analysis of student enrolment ...

5. School enrolment in Canada—a snapshot

   All across Canada a greater share of students and their families are choosing independent schools or homeschooling while the share of students attending public schools in every province is in decline. A recent Fraser Institute study ...

6. Education reform, not more money, is the answer to declining PISA scores

   Per student education spending in Canada increased by 39 per cent in just over a decade. ...

7. Small schools in small Ontario communities don’t need to close

   Up to 37 communities in rural and small-town Ontario may lose their local schools because the government’s current education funding model does not support the ongoing viability of small schools. Parents, students and community leaders ...

8. Specialty education key element of independent school landscape in Canada

   Students vary in learning styles, and parents hold various aspirations for their children’s education. Consequently independent schools—also called private schools—vary in the ways they specialize to address these widespread demands of ...

9. Religious schools dominate independent school landscape in Canada

   Many Canadians “know” that independent schools (a.k.a. private schools) are mostly elite preparatory schools. But this is a common misperception since independent schools in Canada serve a wide range of educational preferences and one, ...

10. Independent schools fill gaps in Ontario

    Often opponents of independent schooling—education which exists outside of public government-run schools—invoke caricatures of private schools catering to the ultra-rich. The reality, however, is that independent schools in Ontario ...