Between 2006/07 and 2015/16, per-student inflation-adjusted spending on public schools in Ontario increased by 18.5 per cent.
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Spending on public schools in Ontario increased from $20.2 billion to $26.6 billion.
Over a decade, inflation-adjusted per-student spending rose by 18.5 per cent.
The average school in our 2018 Report Card had a score of 2.7 out of 4.0 in Grade 6 math.
Less than half of Grade 6 students met the provincial benchmark in math last school year.
Ontario is one of only three provinces that deliver religious education in the public school system.
A recent analysis found that Catholic school boards in Ontario are increasingly enrolling non-Catholic students.
Ontario spent 23.4 per cent more per student in 2014/15 than it did a decade ago.
Ontario does not provide public funding for students attending independent schools.
Ontario is the only non-Atlantic province that doesn’t financially support independent schools.