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1. The Funding and Regulation of Independent Schools in Canada

   This study compares the regulation of independent schools across Canada, with specific attention to differences between provinces that fund independent schools and those that do not. In 2013/14, Canada had slightly fewer than 2,000 independent schools ...

2. Understanding the Increases in Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, 2016 Edition

   : Education spending on public schools in Canada increased by $18.2 billion (41.1%) between 2004/05 and 2013/14, from $44.3 billion to $62.6 billion. Compensation (salaries and wages, fringe benefits, and pensions) accounts for most of the increase ...

3. Independent Schools in British Columbia: Myths and Realities

   Calls for reductions to or elimination of funding for independent schools in British Columbia are based on misperceptions, specifically, that parents choose independent schools because public schools are underfunded; that independent schools are " ...

4. Education Spending and Public Student Enrolment in Canada, 2016 Edition

   To accurately understand education spending, both enrolment changes and the effects of price changes must be considered. For Canada as a whole, over the last decade (2004-05 to 2013-14), the increase in per-student spending in public schools is 25 ...

5. A Diverse Landscape: Independent Schools in Canada

   This study is the first of its kind to offer a national survey of independent schools in Canada. It seeks to address the persistent myth that independent schools are of one dominant type serving a single sort of family. Contrary to the common caricature ...

6. A Primer on Charter Schools

   Charter schools are autonomous public schools that provide innovative or enhanced education programs designed to improve student learning. Operating outside of local school boards and governed by their own board of trustees, they are accountable for ...

7. Where Our Students are Educated: Measuring Student Enrolment in Canada

   Building from the previous edition of this report, released in February 2014, this study expands and updates the measurement of choice and competition across Canada’s 10 provinces, by focusing in particular on student enrolments in the various education ...

8. Understanding the Increases in Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada

   Education spending on public schools in Canada increased by $19.1 billion (45.9%) between 2003/04 and 2012/13, from $41.6 billion to $60.7 billion. Compensation (salaries and wages, benefits, and pensions) accounted for the overwhelming majority of this ...

9. Enrolments and Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada

   To accurately understand education spending, enrolment changes must be included. For Canada as a whole, the increase in per-student spending in public schools after accounting for the effects of price changes was 30.8% between 2003-04 and 2012-13; from $9 ...

10. Home Schooling in Canada: The Current Picture—2015

    Modern-day home schooling in Canada is 40 years old. In this alternative method of education, parents are in charge and responsible for their children’s education and learning primarily takes place outside of an institutional setting. Although always ...