Ottawa school boards overspending on special education
Posted Jun 1, 2011 05:57:27 AM.
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Ottawa’s Public and Catholic School Boards are seeing red.
According to the Citizen, they’re just two of a vast majority of boards spending millions more on special education than they receive.
Ottawa’s Catholic Board overspent by $10.5 million, while the Public Board overspent by $1.5 million.
A new report released today by People for Education says 67 per cent of the 72 publicly funded school boards in Ontario spent a total $174-million more on special ed in 2009-2010 than the province provided.
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