"As parents across Canada increasingly look for more school choice when it comes to their children’s education, it’s important to understand how diverse the regulation and funding landscape is for independent schools"
Funding and regulation of independent schools varies greatly across the provinces: Only five provide partial funding
TORONTO—Only half of Canada’s provinces provide even partial funding for independent schools, which in turn, can lower tuition costs for parents, finds a new study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“Independent schools offer parents greater choice, and often provide religious or alternative teaching pedagogies not available in the public school system, but across Canada there is a wide variety of regulations and funding models for these schools,” said Deani Van Pelt, Fraser Institute senior fellow and co-author of The Funding and Regulation of Independent Schools in Canada.
