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Bird, R. M.; Slack, N. E. – 1978
A review of the property tax system of financing education in Ontario provides historical background for the consideration of alternative approaches to reform. The problem of declining enrollment lends a sense of immediacy to the discussion. The present system of finance is found to be unsatisfactory because of inequities in property assessment…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform
Cameron, David M. – 1978
This paper seeks a plan for financing education in Ontario that minimizes the disruptive effects of declining enrollment and changing enrollment patterns, is sensitive to the limitation of resources, and provides clear channels of authority and responsibility between citizen and policy maker. The author considers the alternatives for placing the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. School Business Administration Services. – 1991
This report provides certain financial data on the school jurisdictions of Alberta (Canada). Consisting entirely of statistical tables except for a brief foreword, the report contains assessment and requisition data, student-teacher ratios, and unsupported debt and financial statement data. Information is presented for the 1988-89 school year or…
Descriptors: Budgets, Catholic Schools, Debt (Financial), Educational Finance
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. School Business Administration Services. – 1991
This report provides financial data on the school jurisdictions of Alberta (Canada). Consisting entirely of statistical tables except for a brief foreword, the report contains assessment and requisition data, student-teacher ratios, and unsupported debt and financial statement data. Information is presented for the 1989-90 school year or 1990…
Descriptors: Budgets, Catholic Schools, Debt (Financial), Educational Finance
Rideout, E. Brock – 1978
Using statistical data, this paper analyzes methods for educational finance in Ontario that provide alternatives to present fiscal inequalities. There are currently five barriers to equity: the lack of directly comparable measures of local tax-paying ability, the extremes in unit equalized assessment caused by the large number of school…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Boards of Education, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textLawton, S. B. – 1986
Five of Canada's ten provinces--Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta--maintain systems of publicly supported religious schools, variously referred to as denominational, dissentient, or separate schools. In each of these, funding is shared between the province and the local communities, with the latter depending, for the most…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Catholic Schools, Court Litigation, Educational Finance
