Funding

What does the research say?

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.

  1. People for Education’s analysis of the 2012 funding for education

  2. Education funding technical paper, 2011-12

  3. A new goal for public education: Schools at the centre
    Annual report on Ontario’s publicly funded schools 2010

  4. Education funding technical paper, 2009-10

  5. The 17th OISE survey of educational issues

  6. Wanted: A renewed vision for public education
    Annual report on Ontario’s publicly funded schools

  7. Ontario’s urban & suburban schools: a prescription for change

  8. Summary of results from People for Education’s annual report on Ontario’s elementary schools

  9. Ontario’s urban & suburban schools

  10. Public attitudes toward education in Ontario

  11. Public Education in Canada: Facts, Trends and Attitudes

  12. How Ontario’s education funding formula is shortchanging students

  13. How Funding for Schools Works, 2007

  14. Back-to-school update on school board finances

  15. Ontario’s Northern Schools, 2003

  16. Investing in public education (Rozanski Report)

  17. Special education in schools