School District Deficits and Program Choice in Alberta
Abstract
The recent public teachers strike in February 2002 and continuing contract dispute in Alberta has brought into sharp focus the issue of the financial position of school districts. Media reporting on the strike was rife with rhetoric backed up by numbers that seem to speak for themselves. But do they? We heard that districts have surpluses and deficits, that some have the ability to pay, that other districts have no more money. But what exactly is a surplus and who is most affected by these accounting realities?Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
