Is this an
"Alarming upward spiral’?

JUDGE FOR YOURSELF

Public school operating costs as a percentage of Government revenue.

41.2

40 38.0

id 34.2 341

74 |
se . | 27.9 27.3
ae | 25.4 28: —

SOCIAL CREDIT ERA

1929/30 1939/40 1950/51 1960/61 1965/66 1970/71

Source: Department of Education, Public Schools Annual Reports,
1970/71 and earlier; B.C. Government, Financial and Econo-
mic Review, 1963 to 1971; and An Economic Review of

~ Resources, Production and Government Finances, 1962 and
earlier.

Despite an increase in school enrolment of 350,000 students in the last 20 years...three times the
growth rate of the rest of the B.C. population..COST INCREASES FOR SCHOOLS HAVE
BEEN MODERATE AND CONTROLLED.

XII, LE SOLEIL, 28 AVRIL. 1972