TORONTO—Compensation costs—including salaries, benefits and pensions—consume almost three quarters of all increases in spending on public schools, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“Despite claims to the contrary, education funding is not being cut—spending on public schools has increased, with the additional money paying mainly for salaries, pensions and benefits,” said Deani Van Pelt, director of the Fraser Institute’s Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education and co-author of Understanding the Increases in Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada.