Reading Time: 4 minutes Subjecting parents choosing such schools for their children to extra costs is discriminatory
Author: Deani Van Pelt
Deani Van Pelt is a Senior Fellow and Former Director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education at the Fraser Institute. Her research and publications in Canadian education policy include studies in home schooling, independent schooling and education funding.
Toppling the misperceptions about home-schooling
Reading Time: 3 minutes Home-schooling successes show that parents and kids can be far more responsible for decisions about their education than imagined
English public schools becoming less popular in Saskatchewan
Reading Time: 3 minutes French schools increased their share of students, as did Catholic schools. And independent schools and home-schooling options are becoming far more popular
The shift away from public schools in B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. policy-makers would be wise to take note that independent school enrolment is increasing and public school numbers are down
Getting the facts straight on Alberta independent school funding
Reading Time: 3 minutes The case for Alberta defunding independent schools is being made largely on the basis of mistaken analysis
Right idea, wrong messenger, for education reform in Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes A federal Tory candidate’s policy proposal would end a decade of silence on school choice in Canada
Ontario: look west for solutions on independent school funding
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province should end its outdated barriers to education choice for students and parents
When Ontario public schools aren’t public enough
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increasingly, parents are looking past public schools for their children’s education – but Ontario’s legislation puts up financial roadblocks
Small Ontario schools can – and should – be kept open
Reading Time: 3 minutes We shouldn’t buy the misleading claim that small schools in rural and small communities are no longer viable
Sweden gives parents more choice in education
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sweden’s more competitive educational environment encourages – even forces – schools to respond to the needs, preferences and wishes of parents