More Money Is Not The Answer

There are those who blame the poor performance of Ontario schools on under-funding, even though it is very easy to demonstrate that the amount of money schools boards receive has little or no correlation with their students' achievement. 

Here's an article from the North Bay Nugget showing a wide disparity in the amount of per-pupil funding among the four local boards: Near North ($12,474), Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic ($13,809), Catholique Franco-Nord ($16,831), and Nord-Est de l'Ontario ($20,728). Yet on the Ontario Literacy Test, the pass rates at the same four boards bore no relation to the amount of money they were receiving: Near North (81%), Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic (75%), Catholique Franco-Nord (79%), and Nord-Est de l'Ontario (68%). 

All of this information (and much more) is available at our Sunshine on Schools web-site. H/T to Chuck.

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