Ontario’s fiscal watchdog predicts $12.3-billion spending gap in education sector by 2029-30

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Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office says provincial funding allocated for education over the next several years falls billions of dollars short of what it projects will be needed to pay for promised programming

Ontario Financial Accountability Officer Peter Weltman answers questions in Toronto on Dec. 10, 2018.Ontario’s fiscal watchdog predicts $12.3B spending gap in education sector by 2029-30

The Financial Accountability Office issued a report Monday comparing the Ministry of Education’s programs and commitments for the period spanning 2019-20 to 2029-30 to the spending plan laid out for the sector in the 2021 Ontario budget.The watchdog says that based on its analysis, ministry spending should grow at an average annual rate of two per cent, but the budget only calls for an average increase of 1.2 per cent.

As a result, the FAO says the province will either need to increase funding for education or bring in significant spending cuts.

 

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There will be not only spending gaps but also gaps in providing needed societal services. This esp if we do not demand/force our elected politicians to start taxing all of us properly and equally. This means top earners must pay way higher tax rates then reg folks. Enough is En..

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