How Canada’s Independent School Associations Strengthen Democracy and Civil Society

Joanna DeJong VanHof

Cardus reiterates our recommendation to allocate $600 million of the $8.6 billion School Construction Acceleration Program to capital investment for independent and charter schools. This investment will help alleviate pressure on the public schooling system at a lower per-student cost.

Catharine Kavanagh Andreae Sennyah

Concilier équité et diversité

Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard

All education, whether from a secular or religious vantage point, is rooted in particular beliefs about the world.

David I. Smith

A Look at Seventeen Countries

Joanna DeJong VanHof

Availability, Access, and Accountability

Joanna DeJong VanHof

Cardus's response to the UN-OHCHR consultation contests the preference for state-delivered public education. We argue that diverse models of delivery facilitate educational pluralism and contribute to the common good of societies.

Joanna DeJong VanHof Andreae Sennyah

Our recommendations address the following areas: supporting more families with child care costs, expanding support for independent education, reviewing post-secondary education funding to better serve working-class Albertans, redirecting gambling revenues to addiction relief programs, limiting the expansion of online gambling, increasing investments in palliative care for adults and children, and promoting employment for people with criminal records.

Andreae Sennyah

No, right-of-centre policymakers don't own the school choice movement. Progressives have been supporting educational pluralism at least since the 1960s.

Ashley Berner