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  1. Education Spending in Canada: What’s Actually Happening?

    Media reports on education spending in Canada often refer to spending cuts, gaps and caps, budget shortfalls, and expenditure decreases. An informal observer may well conclude that spending on government elementary and secondary schools across the ...

  2. Need Reform Not Just Cuts to Education Spending

    Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record One of the big stories coming out of Queen’s Park on the government’s fall economic update was the possibility of reductions in education spending. Indeed, shortly after the update was made public, the NDP charged ...

  3. Ontario parents deserve more choice for their children’s education

    oliver's blog A story in the September 4 th edition of the National Post detailing the cheerful return of Marni Soupcoff’s son to his independent school was an experience shared by parents and their children across the country, even though Ontario is ...

  4. Education reform could help address Ontario's financial woes

    The Waterloo Record Ontario’s financial status quo is not sustainable. That’s the conclusion of numerous independent analyses, the former provincial treasurer, and the province’s own commission on reform of public sector services. Yet despite these ...

  5. Financial Savings: Restructuring Education in Ontario Using the British Columbia Model

    Almost one-fifth (18.7 percent) of Ontario’s budget is spent on JK-12 education. With recurring deficits—the most recent ($11.3 billion) amounting to almost half the entire public JK-12 budget ($23.8 billion in 2013/14)—and provincial net debt of $269.3 ...

  6. How to reward excellence in teaching

    Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal The one-room schoolhouse may be a relic of a bygone era, but teacher compensation in Canada remains stuck in a time warp. Currently, teacher compensation is determined by rigid salary schedules based on ...

  7. Independent schools offer BC parents shelter from labour strife

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun As BC parents and students struggle with the teachers’ strike and prospects of a significantly delayed school year, it’s worth understanding how and why one-in-eight students (and their parents) in the province is unaffected ...

  8. Public education dollars need not be restricted to public education monopoly

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald In a liberal democracy, where critical thinking is often touted as an end goal in education, it was disappointing to read Calgary MLA Kent Hehr’s attack on parental choice in education (“Private schools divide pupils by ...

  9. More school choice the answer for Ontario parents of special needs children

    Appeared in the National Post In her May 20th column, Why I can't vote for Tim Hudak, our long-time friend, Tasha Kheiriddin, raised questions concerning the Tory plan for reforming K-12 education in Ontario. Her concerns were based on her daughter& ...

  10. Ontario's Private Schools: Who Chooses Them and Why?

    Private school attendance in Ontario has grown over recent decades from 1.9 percent of the student population in 1960 to 5.6 percent in 2006. What are the characteristics of private schools? Why are parents increasingly choosing them over public schools? ...