Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. financially supports parents who choose independent schools with per-student grants of up to 50%
Tag: BC education
Invest in education to ensure a strong democracy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The correlation between an educated populace and a vibrant society is clear. But B.C.’s education system is losing ground
Ontario should look to B.C. as a model for education reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province needs to remove religious schools from the public system while introducing partial funding for independent schools
Academic results another reason to support school choice
Reading Time: 3 minutes In British Columbia, independent schools outperform public schools in academic achievement
Ontario can learn from B.C.’s education model
Reading Time: 3 minutes Independent schools deliver higher student test scores at lower costs to taxpayers
Can B.C. climb back to the education mountaintop?
Reading Time: 3 minutes For almost 20 years, the government has been at war with the teaching profession. New contract talks can change that
White privilege or simply elite posturing?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Creating a society in which everything is viewed in terms of race will divide our nation and breed resentment
Spending on B.C. public schools up despite dwindling enrolment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Per-student spending is up, flying in the face of claims that education funding has been slashed or that B.C. schools are starved for resources
B.C. government: public transit too risky for children
Reading Time: 3 minutes By sending his children to school on public transit in Vancouver, Adrian Cook ran afoul of the provincial government’s nanny state mentality
B.C. government wants to fix a school system that isn’t broken
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. students lead Canada in student performance in several areas while keeping per-student costs in public schools among the lowest in the country