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- Title
Financial Effects of Aid to Nonpublic Schools: The British Columbia Experience.
- Authors
Brown, Daniel J.
- Abstract
This article examines the initial financial outcomes of a voucher plan applied to the non-public schools in British Columbia. The voucher plan finances non-public school students for the first time at about 30 percent of public school costs per pupil. Several voucher schemes were proposed mostly in the late 1960s, when the academic controversy concerning freedom of choice and the responsiveness of educational institutions was in vogue. In the funding model used for nonpublic schools the aid per pupil goes directly to each school and parents pay the requested tuition. In this way, the need for the student to produce a ticket at the school door and the need for the school to collect and process tickets are avoided. The nonpublic schools in British Columbia numbered 173 in 1978-79 and enrolled 24,057 students, about 5 percent of those in public schools. The property tax is an important method whereby funds are collected to support elementary and secondary education in British Columbia. Revenues not generated through property taxes are provided through general funds, primarily from the provincial income tax and sales tax.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; FINANCING of private schools; EDUCATIONAL vouchers; EDUCATIONAL finance; GOVERNMENT aid to private schools; PUBLIC schools; EDUCATION costs; SECONDARY education; INCOME tax deductions; PROPERTY tax
- Publication
Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 1982, Vol 4, Issue 4, p443
- ISSN
0162-3737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3102/01623737004004443