Funding Parity Plus

FNWSC’s Leslee White-Eye and former Ontario Deputy Education Minister Gabriel Sékaly get real about First nations education in this strategycorp podcast

The term “achievement gap” refers to any significant and persistent disparity in academic performance or educational attainment between different groups of students.

As part of its framework to improve education funding on First Nation unceded territory, the Government of Canada has proposed using an adapted version of Ontario’s education funding formula for Ontario-based First Nations. This formula is called the Grants for Student Needs (GSN).

First Nations with Schools Collective examine funding gaps as a factor inhibiting First Nation education systems from addressing First Nation student achievement gaps.

Education in First Nation communities has long been an exercise in education management of federal government dollars to run a school. The transformational change First Nations are looking for requires a much broader view of the role of First Nation governments in delivering education.

The First Nations With Schools Collective’s community engagement strategy has embarked on a front-line mission to identify how the current federal funding model imposes constraints on First Nation education systems.

As a collective, 8 First Nations draw on each other’s common view of success and work to build a data infrastructure blueprint

The recent discovery by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation that revealed an estimated 215 children had been buried on the grounds of the shuttered Catholic-run Kamloops Residential School signals a new reckoning with colonial genocide in Canada.