%0 Journal Article
%T Are Ontario Teachers Paid More Equitably? Do Local Variables Matter?
%A Xiaobin Li
%J Brock Education : a Journal of Educational Research and Practice
%D 2008
%I Brock University
%X This study investigated whether Ontario¡¯s education funding reform of 1998 made teacher salaries more equitable. It also examined whether selected local variables had the same influence on teacher salaries in 2001-02 as they did in 1995-96 before the reform. Average teacher salaries before the reform in 1995-96 and after the reform in 2001-02 among school boards and among census divisions were compared to see whether the variation in teacher salaries increased or decreased. A partial correlation analysis was conducted to examine the influence on teacher salaries from local variables, which were derived from a literature review. This study finds that (a) teachers are paid more equitably today than before the reform, and (b) local variables no longer really matter, as a result of the changed provincial funding formula.
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