Schools for Ontario : : Policy-making, Administration, and Finance in the 1960s / / David Cameron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Cameron, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

The governing and financing of public education is everywhere a complex undertaking. The 1960s was for Ontario a vital decade in education, when the structure of local school boards, provincial and federal financing and control, the provision of academic and vocational systems, and the Department of Education itself were all reconsidered and changed to attain greater efficiency and opportunity throughout the province. This is a detailed case study in intergovernmental relations focusing on provincial-local relations in education. It offers a perceptive insight into the nature of the political system in Ontario by presenting a clear and straightforward analysis of the formulation, content, and impact of provincial policy upon the provision of public education by local school boards. The text is divided into five parts. The first part is an analysis of the provincial-local context within which the policies of the provincial government were developed. The second deals with the Ontario Foundation Tax Plan, a programme of grants from the province to the school boards. Part III is an analysis of two policies developed in a federal-provincial context: capital grants for the construction of vocational schools and the Ontario Education Capital Aid Corporation. Part IV examines three policies affecting the structure of educational government in Ontario: the consolidation of school districts in 1965, the reorganization of the Department of Education, and the further consolidation of school districts in 1969 into county units. In knitting together the highlights of the study, Part V pays special attention to the complex but revealing interrelationship between problems, policies, and the intergovernmental political system of Ontario, and shows how problems were resolved, ameliorated, or even exaggerated by the combined effect of the provincial and federal-provincial programmes. The focus then shifts to the years 1969 and 1970 to demonstrate the changed nature of provincial policy emerging from within an apparently changed context of provincial-local relations. Throughout the study the author`s detailed knowledge and thorough understanding of the policies and processes of the educational system are evident. He presents a mine of statistical information combined with a remarkably keen and concise analysis of the administrative process. This study will be of great interest to educators, administrators, and students of intergovernmental relations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. The problems -- 2. Problems of local government -- 3. Problems of local fiscal resources -- 4. The special fiscal problem of separate schools -- 5. Problems of enrolment -- 6. Problems of expenditure -- 7. The matrix of problems -- Part II. Provincial fiscal responses -- 8. The Ontario Foundation Tax Plan, 1964: background and overview -- 9. The Ontario Foundation Tax Plan, 1965–8: the process of change and overall impact -- Part III. Federal-Provincial fiscal responses -- 10. The Federal-Provincial Technical and Vocational Training Agreement -- 11. The Ontario Education Capital Aid Corporation -- Part IV. Provincial structural responses -- 12.Township school areas -- 13. Reorganization of the Department of Education -- 14. County school districts -- Part IV. Conclusions -- 15. The matrix of responses -- 16. The legacy of provincial responses -- 17. Provincial policy and the political system -- References -- Appendix. Supporting tables -- Selected Bibliography -- Index