Under our Platform, annual funding for education at all levels will go up by over $800 million by 2011/12. K-12 education funding will increase by 35 per cent by 2011/12 over 2000/01 levels, despite a continued drop in student enrolment, with 53,000 fewer students today than in 2001. Per pupil funding will rise to historic high levels.

Over the last eight years we have increased parental involvement in school planning, increased accountability for teachers and school boards, increased choice in schooling, and protected volunteer rights. A new Teacher’s Discipline Registry now requires public reporting of teachers disciplined for misconduct involving emotional, physical or sexual abuse. We have decreased class sizes through new legislation that requires consultation with parents and teachers on class sizes and other facets of school planning, and reports annually on class size in every school – the most comprehensive reporting in Canada. Information on class sizes in any school.