Property owners who pay education property taxes to either Good Spirit School Division or Christ the Teacher School Division have seen significant reductions in the amounts they pay annually over the last five years.
They, like property owners across the province, now have access to additional information on school division funding. The provincial government is providing visitors to the Ministry of Education website with easy-to-access information on government operating grants and education property taxes.
According to the government, education property tax has gone from $26.13 million in 2007/08 to $16.60 million in 2012/13, a drop of 36 per cent.
Meanwhile, grants from the province to Good Spirit have gone from $26.3 million in 2007/08 to $50.2 million in 2012/13. That marks an increase of 91 per cent.
In Christ the Teacher, property owners paid $3.6 million in education property tax in 2007/08, representing a reduction of 24 per cent.
The province's share of funding to Christ the Teacher during that period increased a full 31 per cent. The province paid $10.9 million in 2007/08 and increased that to $14.2 million in 2012/13.
The education funding chart allows users to select one of the 28 school divisions in Saskatchewan, or a provincial total, from a drop-down menu. Government operating grants and education property tax are provided on a year-by-year basis for each school division from 2007-08 to 2012-13. Users can access the funding chart through the following link at: www.education. gov.sk.ca/ed-funding- specific-sd.
As announced in the budget in March, the Government of Saskatchewan's overall funding to school divisions in 2012-13 will be $1.73 billion.
