Funding
Funding for schools is determined through a funding formula developed by the Ministry of Education. In this section, you can find more information about how schools are funded and some of the challenges schools and boards face in working within the funding formula.
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2013
The Arts in Ontario Schools
The Report on the Arts in Schools includes: dramatic information about the impact of family income on students’ access to things like band and choir; new data about a change.
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2012
Public attitudes towards education in Ontario 2012
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2012. The 18th OISE Survey of Educational Issues presents a snapshot view of public opinions on the state of schooling based on a telephone.
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2011
Education funding technical paper, 2011-12
Ontario Ministry of Education, 2011. This annual background paper explains policy and assumptions behind Ontario’s funding formula.
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2010
A new goal for public education: Schools at the centre
Annual report on Ontario’s publicly funded schools 2010People for Education, 2010. Using data from the People for Education Annual School Survey, as well as information from the EQAO, Statistics Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Education, this.
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2009
Education funding technical paper, 2009-10
Ontario Ministry of Education. This annual background paper explains policy and assumptions behind Ontario’s education funding formula.
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2011
The 17th OISE survey of educational issues
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, 2009 This 2009 survey showed that satisfaction with public schooling is at a 30-year high. Across demographic groups, most.
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2009
Wanted: A renewed vision for public education
Annual report on Ontario’s publicly funded schoolsPeople for Education, 2009. The report tracks programs and resources in schools, including things like special education waiting lists, percentages of schools with music teachers and teacher-librarians, fundraising amounts and.
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2009
Ontario’s urban & suburban schools: a prescription for change
People for Education, 2009. The recommendations in this report are based on a discussion paper developed by People for Education in 2008.
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2008
Summary of results from People for Education’s annual report on Ontario’s elementary schools
People for Education, 2008. This report contains a summary of the data from People for Education’s Annual School Survey.
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2008
Ontario’s urban & suburban schools
People for Education, 2008. This discussion paper examines the unique aspects of schools and communities in Ontario municipalities with populations of over 200,000.
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2007
Public attitudes toward education in Ontario
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2007. This report includes the 2007 results of the ongoing OISE Survey of Educational Issues.
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2007
Public Education in Canada: Facts, Trends and Attitudes
Canadian Education Association, 2007 A survey of Canadian attitudes towards education shows strong support for education, including a willingness to pay more taxes, and generally high support for the system. .
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2007
How Ontario’s education funding formula is shortchanging students
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2007 This critical overview of Ontario’s funding formula explains why, despite annual increases in funding, school boards and schools still struggle to make ends meet. .
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2007
How Funding for Schools Works, 2007
This is a chapter from People for Education’s Annual Report 2007, talking about how funding for schools work. .
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2006
Back-to-school update on school board finances
People for Education, 2006. In this report, People for Education examines the impact of 2006/07 provincial education funding decisions – in particular the impact on Ontario’s northern school boards.
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2003
Ontario’s Northern Schools, 2003
People for Education, 2003. This report focuses on the areas where northern schools differ most markedly from schools in the rest of the province, using data from P4E surveys and.
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2002
Investing in public education (Rozanski Report)
Ontario Education Equality Task Force, 2002. This comprehensive review of Ontario’s education funding formula made recommendations to improve the adequacy and structure of education funding.
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2002
Special education in schools
People for Education, 2002. Five years after 1998 changes to the funding formula, tracking showed students stranded on waiting lists until their needs become so severe that they qualify for.