TORONTO—Spending on public schools in Ontario has increased by $7 billion over the past decade despite declining enrolment, finds a new study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“There’s a common misperception, perpetuated by teachers’ unions and activists, that spending on public schools in Ontario has been declining, but that simply is not true,” said Deani Van Pelt, director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Education Spending and Public School Enrolment in Canada, 2016 Edition.