Not Hidden but Not Visible: Government Funding of Independent Schools in Canada

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作者
Borwein, Sophie [1 ]
Farney, James [2 ]
Khovrenkov, Iryna [2 ]
White, Linda A. [3 ]
机构
[1] Simon Fraser Univ, Sch Publ Policy, 515 West Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3, Canada
[2] Univ Regina, Johnson Shoyama Grad Sch Publ Policy, 2155 Coll Ave, Regina, SK S4P 4V5, Canada
[3] Univ Toronto, Dept Polit Sci, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
来源
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE | 2023年 / 56卷 / 03期
关键词
school finance; public and private education; tax expenditures; spending transparency; financement des ecoles; education publique et privee; depenses fiscales; transparence des depenses; EDUCATION; POLICY; POLITICS; CHOICE; ERA;
D O I
10.1017/S0008423923000471
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
A growing body of comparative public policy research examines the effects of delegated delivery of public services and the related emergence of what is labelled a submerged state that obscures the role of government in the provision of public services. Data limitations have constrained investigations of these dynamics in Canada, including for K-12 education. In this research note, we draw on charitable tax records and provincial and federal spending data to present the evolution of provincial and federal financial support for independent schools over time, drawing on the case of British Columbia (BC). By factoring in indirect support through various tax mechanisms, we establish that BC independent schools have seen increasing financial support from both the federal and provincial governments in recent decades, primarily via tax expenditures tied to their charitable status-a "not hidden but not visible" shift in public expenditure that has substantial political, distributive and accountability implications. De plus en plus de recherches comparatives sur les politiques publiques mettent l'accent sur les effets de la delegation des services publics et sur l'emergence de ce que l'on appelle un etat submerge qui obscurcit le role du gouvernement dans la fourniture des services publics. Le manque de donnees a limite les recherches sur ces dynamiques au Canada, y compris pour l'education de la maternelle a la 12e annee. Dans cette note de recherche, nous nous appuyons sur les registres fiscaux des organismes de bienfaisance et sur les donnees relatives aux depenses provinciales et federales pour presenter l'evolution du soutien financier provincial et federal aux ecoles independantes au fil du temps, en nous appuyant sur le cas de la Colombie-Britannique (BC). En tenant compte du soutien indirect par le biais de divers mecanismes fiscaux, nous etablissons que les ecoles independantes de la Colombie-Britannique ont beneficie d'un soutien financier croissant de la part des gouvernements federal et provincial au cours des dernieres decennies, principalement par le biais de depenses fiscales liees a leur statut d'organisme de bienfaisance - un changement << non cache mais non visible >> dans les depenses publiques qui a d'importantes implications politiques, distributives et de responsabilisation.
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