This report shares recommendations for the distribution of federal government funding among Canada's post-secondary institutions. These recommendations include: (1) continue to increase federal support for investigator-led research to ensure high success rates; (2) increase funding for SSHRC through a re-balancing of Tri-Agency funding and permit…

This handbook aims at helping policy makers and social partners to look at the issues involved in financing work-based learning programmes--programmes that are part of formal vocational education and training and combine learning in the workplace with learning in the classroom--and to make better choices between the policy options that face them…

Using research conducted by the federal government's own finance department, social policy groups released the report, "Paying for Canada: Perspectives on Public Finance and National Programs." It showed that deliberate government policy to reduce taxation levels for some of the most economically advantaged groups in Canada had resulted…

Tax support for denominational schools is discussed in terms of: the British Columbia Independent Schools Act viewed in relation to the situation in other Canadian Provinces; the reasons advanced for and against tax support for denominational schools; and Canadian practices compared with what obtains in some other countries. (JC)

The initial financial outcomes of the "voucher plan" applied to the nonpublic schools in British Columbia are assessed. The schools are then described and a summary of the methods of financing both public and nonpublic schools is offered. Impacts of aid on parents, students, taxpayers, and the government are discussed. (Author/PN)

The Province of New Brunswick, Canada, as part of a mammoth reshuffling of provincial-local relationships, established an Equal Opportunity Program and took over the entire burden of financing public elementary and secondary education on January 1, 1967. On May 20, 1971, at a conference on State financing of public schools, questions about the…

Financial support of elementary and secondary education in Canada has gone from absolute local dependence to local with some government support to local with substantial government support to current total government support with restricted, if any allowed, local support. This has been challenged on constitutional grounds in two provinces, Alberta…

This paper investigates the real living standards and poverty status of U.S. children in the 1990s compared to the children in 17 other nations, including Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, and Australia. The analysis is based on the Luxembourg Income Study database. It was found that American children have lower real spendable income than do comparable…

This booklet is the third in a three part series dealing with individual and societal expectations of education in Canada and the relationship between basic goals and the principles of financing. This document examines some of the economic factors basic to the design and planning of school financing. The authors first examine the growth of…

The author proposes a tax target plan by which taxpayers could earmark their payments to the local public school of their choice. Several levels of this plan are described and feasibility and costs discussed. (SJL)

A comparison of how American and Canadian universities receive and spend funds using data from fiscal year 1991-92 explored the link between general economic conditions and the financial health of universities. The analysis found that with respect to revenue patterns, Canadian universities receive their funds mainly from provincial governments…

The report describes regulation of philanthropic organizations by federal, state, and self-regulatory groups within the organizations. It is the final volume in a five volume series examining the relationship between nonprofit institutions and their donors. Topics discussed in the first part of this volume are regulation of the philanthropic…

Asserting that the "children's budget" expected from the Canadian federal government in February 2000 may fail to address the needs of children and youth with disabilities, this report argues that the federal government has a variety of avenues open for meeting these needs. The report contends that it is essential to ensure that families…

This paper examines the financial status of public universities in Ontario, Canada, and makes the argument that they are under-funded by the Ontario government. An opening section notes the recent announcement by the government of funding levels for 1992-93, 1993-94, and 1994-95 which are below the projected rate of inflation and suggests that…

This document begins with a section that discusses the demand for education and the identification of the broad characteristics of an educational system that would fulfill the needs and aspirations of the individual and satisfy the requirements of society. It outlines the history of the crisis in educational finance, discusses the problem of…