On today’s episode of Unpacking the News Joel French, executive director of Public Interest Alberta, expands on his recent opinion piece for Ricochet on public funding of private schools.
In it, he took a close look at the numbers in the Fraser Institute’s latest report, and found that the data directly contradicts the report’s conclusion.
So what do the numbers show? That private schools don’t need public funding.
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