Untangling the Spin About K-12 Education in BC
Who’s Cutting Classes? was originally published in January 2004. It reviews how public education (K-12) is financed in BC, and calculates real per-student funding since 1990, taking into account both student enrollment and cost pressures in the system. The update, The $150 Million Question, provides figures current to the 2005 BC Budget.
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UPDATE: The $150 Million Question [March 2005]
About the author
Marc Lee is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Marc joined the CCPA’s British Columbia office in 1998, and is one of Canada’s leading progressive commentators on economic and environmental policy issues. From 2009 to 2015, Marc led the CCPA’s Climate Justice Project (CJP), which published a wide range of research on fair and effective approaches to climate action through integrating principles of social justice. Marc continues to write about climate and energy policy, strategies for affordable housing, federal and provincial budgets and macroeconomics. Marc has an MA in Economics from Simon Fraser University and a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. Marc is a past chair of the Progressive Economics Forum, a national network of heterodox economists. He also served as a Visiting Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy in 2024 to 2025.
