BC Schools - School District Funding Allocation 2008-2009 provides operating grant allocations for public school districts in British Columbia for Fiscal Year 2008-2009. The dataset includes grants for students with unique needs, enrolment decline, teacher salaries, labour settlement, and summer learning. It is published by the Government of British Columbia on the open_canada platform.
Use Cases
- Compare funding allocations across school districts based on operating grants.
- Analyze funding for special education programs based on grants for students with unique needs.
- Study the impact of enrolment decline on district budgets based on related grant data.
- Assess labour settlement funding distribution across districts.
- Evaluate summer learning program funding allocations.
Strengths
- Data is focused on a single fiscal year (2008-2009), providing a consistent temporal snapshot.
- Includes specific grant categories mentioned in the description, such as special education, ESL, and aboriginal support.
- Published by the authoritative Government of British Columbia.
- Available in XLSX format, which is commonly used for tabular data.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single fiscal year.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- Fiscal Year 2008-2009
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:34:47.690147; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada