Fraser Institute News Release: Spending on public schools in Maritime Canada on the rise, despite largest declines in enrolment nationwide
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
The study finds that Atlantic Canada experienced the largest declines in public school enrolment across Canada from 2013/14 to 2017/18, the most recent year of available Statistics Canada data.
Key Points:
- The study finds that Atlantic Canada experienced the largest declines in public school enrolment across Canada from 2013/14 to 2017/18, the most recent year of available Statistics Canada data.
- New Brunswick experienced the largest decline in enrolment among the provinces with 2.2 per cent fewer students.
- Nova Scotia experienced the largest per student spending on public school increase anywhere in the country at 15.2 per cent.
- Conversely, while Newfoundland and Labrador experienced the largest enrolment decline nationwide of 3.0 per cent, that provinces (inflation adjusted) per-student spending on public schools also decreased 6.3 per cent.