School District Deficits and Program Choice in Alberta

Authors

  • Dean Neu
  • Alison Taylor
  • Elizabeth Ocampo

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?

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Published

2017-07-25

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