A new poll from Environics on the issue of publicly funding private schools shows widespread support and positive momentum for defunding elite private schools and shifting funding to the public education system.
Three out of four Albertans, 75 per cent, agree that schools charging more than $10,000 per year in tuition should not receive public funding.
And it turns out that defunding elite private schools is just as popular with Albertans as pipelines. Polling done by Abacus Data in September, 2017 shows that the same amount of Albertans support the construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
If you agree that elite private schools need to get off the gravy train of public subsidies show your support by emailing your MLA. Given that such overwhelming majority of Albertans support stopping the unfair practice of subsidizing private schools that charge up to $26,000 a year let’s give this government the encouragement it needs to act on this issue.
There are 17 elite private schools in Alberta (you can read about them here and here) and together these schools received $29.1 million in government subsidies in 2016-2017.
You can download the whole report from Environics here.
