According to long-term trends, public school spending is rising while test scores are falling.
Education
Less than half of the province's Grade 10 students are proficient in numeracy.
The more students know about a topic, the more likely they’ll be able to understand what they read.
The province's Grade 4 students suffered learning losses due to pandemic disruptions.
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick are among the lowest-scoring provinces on both assessments.
When governments closed schools and disrupted learning, many families rediscovered the important contributions schools make to modern society.
In science, Alberta outscored highly-ranked countries including Estonia and Finland.
The Prairie provinces have higher homeschooling enrolment than other provinces.
At 86.5 per cent, B.C. has the smallest proportion of students in government-run public schools.
Between 2006/07 to 2019/20, independent school enrolment increased from 6.7 per cent to 7.6 per cent of total K-12 enrolment.
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