Monday, September 03, 2007

Ontario Party Calls For Public Funding of Religious Schools

This week, Canada's Law Times reports that the platform of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party calls for direct funding of the province's 100 private faith-based schools. Currently the only religious schools to receive government funding are Catholic ones. At an estimated cost of $400 million, proponents say this would integrate the province's diverse student body into the mainstream. (See prior related posting.)