Ontario's Small Schools.

Titel	Ontario's Small Schools.
Quelle	(2003), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Elementary Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Enrollment; Financial Problems; Foreign Countries; Funding Formulas; Institutional Survival; Rural Schools; School Closing; School Personnel; School Size; School Support; Secondary Schools; Small Schools; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Einschulung; Ausland; Funding; Finanzierung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; School closings; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Schulpersonal; Schulförderverein; Sekundarschule; Kanada
Abstract	In Ontario, nearly half of the elementary schools have fewer than 300 students, and one quarter of the high schools have fewer than 600 students. However, the province's funding formula was designed for larger schools. Small schools in Ontario are operating without adequate staff and resources and are at risk of being closed. Since 1999, 192 schools have closed in Ontario, almost all of them small schools. This report examines school size across Ontario's elementary and secondary schools; the number of enrolled students required under the current funding formula to fund full-time principals, vice-principals, secretaries, teacher-librarians, and guidance counselors; the Small Schools Allocation, which provides additional support to a few qualifying schools; the funding gap, which affects half of Ontario's elementary schools; staffing trends in small versus large schools; the benefits of smaller schools; and the recent trend toward larger schools in Ontario. Provincial policies and programs to maintain small schools in Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador are described, and specific recommendations are offered for changing the Ontario funding formula to meet the needs of small schools. (SV)
Anmerkungen	People for Education, P.O. Box 64, Station P, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S6. Tel: 416-534-0100. For full text: http://www.peopleforeducation.com/reports/smllschl/smallschoolsrpt_03.PDF.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC