Category : Education and Child Care
Ontario School Boards: Enrolment, Finances and Student Outcomes
This report examines how provincial funding is allocated to Ontario’s 72 district school boards and reviews differences in student demographics, school space availability, school board finances and academic performance across English Public, English Catholic, French Public and French Catholic school systems.
Ministry of Education: Spending Plan Review
This report analyzes the Ministry of Education’s spending plan as set out in the 2022 Ontario Budget and the 2022-23 Expenditure Estimates.
Ontario Public Sector Employment and Compensation
This report analyzes Ontario Public Sector employment and compensation. The report provides an overview of public sector employment in Ontario, discusses upcoming collective bargaining negotiations and the application of wage restraint under Bill 124, projects provincial spending on employee compensation over the next five years, and discusses three key risks to this projection: inflation, the court challenge to Bill 124 and staffing shortages.
The Impact of Provincial Spending and Revenue Collection on Ontario Families
This report analyzes the impact in 2019-20 of Ontario families’ contributions to provincial government revenues and the benefits they received from provincial government spending. Using 2019-20 as a representative year, the report estimates how many families were net beneficiaries from provincial government revenue collection and spending, and how many were net contributors.
Ministry of Education: Spending Plan Review
This report reviews the Ministry of Education’s 2021-22 Expenditure Estimates. The report provides a financial overview of the ministry and examines the ministry’s spending plan.
Expenditure Estimates 2019-20: Ministry of Education
This report supports the Standing Committee on Estimates’ review of the Ministry of Education’s 2019-20 Expenditure Estimates.
Child Care In Ontario: A Review of Ontario's New Child Care Tax Credit
The report assesses the financial and economic implications of the government’s new childcare tax credit: the ‘Childcare Access and Relief from Expenses’ or ‘CARE’ tax credit.
The Funding of Postsecondary Education in Ontario
This commentary is designed to help Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) to better understand the evolution of Provincial funding of PSE.
