Manitoba Education Funding Debate Highlights Private School Costs
At an AMM panel on education funding the Manitoba public system is criticized as expensive. Public schools receive about 1.2 billion dollars while private schools get 65 million and cost per student is lower. The speaker notes private and home schooling receive little to no public funding, suggesting potential savings and pain for rural districts if trends continue.
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Association of Manitoéba Municipalities
AMM
Manitoba
Public Schools Finance Board
Public School Finance Board
Two Houses of Joe Clark and Preston Manning Clash on Parliament
In Edmonton the Federal Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark and Reform Leader Preston Manning debated democratic empowerment and restoring trust in Parliament. Clark favored traveling committees and deliberative polling while wary of recall and referenda. Manning championed populist tools like free votes and binding referenda to energize reform.
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Joe Clark
Reform
Preston Manning
Edmonton
Manning
Clark
Toi
Tory
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Ken Waddell
Parliament
Ing
StatsCan
Erca
Walter Robinson