Strong demand, intense debates: Ontario’s Catholic schools at a crossroads - Catholic Insight

Strong demand, intense debates: Ontario’s Catholic schools at a crossroads - Catholic Insight

As students prepare to bid farewell to summer and head back to school, Catholic education in Ontario may be at a crossroads. In Ontario, as in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Catholic schools are government-funded under a separate public school system. About a third of Ontario students — well over 500,000 — are estimated to attend Catholic schools, making Ontario’s Catholic system one of the largest in the world. But the models for delivering faithful…