Funding for Private Schools

THAT BCCPAC insist that the government redesign its funding formula for independent schools to remove the unfair advantages inherent in its current policy by doing the following: 1. Only include the funding amounts for English Language Learners, Aboriginal Students, Adult Learners and Vulnerable Students (associated with poverty) if the independent school actually has equivalent proportions of properly identified students in those categories enrolled. 2. Remove the public school’s declining enrolment supplement from the base amount used to calculate the per student grant for independent schools. 3. Only fund distributed learning programs to the 50% (Group 1) or 35% (Group 2) base standards used for independent school grants.