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Ontario Grapples With School Funding

By Karla Scoon Reid

Even though an academic handpicked by Ontario's premier has vindicated school districts' allegations that the provincial government has been shortchanging them, Ontario refuses to free Toronto—Canada's largest school system— and other districts from its control.

International Page The president of the University of Guelph, who wrote the government- commissioned report, calls for injecting $1.8 billion into Ontario's education system.

Critics of the province's education funding system hailed the findings, which recommend bringing school spending in line with inflation and current teacher-salary rates. They say the report substantiates their long- standing contention that Ontario's...