A lack of regulation raises concern about educational quality as well as children’s safety.
- Professor, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada
When private contractors build schools they don’t necessarily meet the needs of communities for a lower cost than what governments can provide, and there’s less public accountability.
The turn to private funding of education reduces the responsibility of governments to adequately fund schools and to ensure all children have access to high-quality education programming.
Les frais scolaires parfois exorbitants exigés aux parents créent une école à deux vitesses, une situation inéquitable pour les plus démunis.
Some parents in Québec are being reimbursed after a ruling that they were overcharged school fees. If taxes cover public schools, should parents have to pay at all?
School fundraising, while often heralded for increasing parent engagement and providing much-needed school resources, may come at the expense of creating of equitable and inclusive public schools.
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