{"id":5601,"date":"2009-03-19T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:57:11","slug":"canada-native-education-program-gets-an-f-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/canada-native-education-program-gets-an-f-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Native education program gets an F: audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chronicle Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclejournal.com\/stories_national.php?id=172062\">Native education program gets an F: audit<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nOTTAWA &#8211; The Harper government flunks accountability, says a new audit that blasts lax controls over almost $300 million meant to help native students get to college or university.<\/p>\n<p>The bruising report calls for tighter tracking of that cash and says funding has not kept pace with tuition hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa does not trace how many native kids beat staggering odds to make it through high school only to be denied help to go on.<\/p>\n<p>It spent $292 million last year to help 23,000 students &#8211; that\u2019s down from a high of 27,000 funding recipients a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronicle Journal: Native education program gets an F: audit OTTAWA &#8211; The Harper government flunks accountability, says a new audit that blasts lax controls over almost $300 million meant to help native students get to college or university. The bruising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/canada-native-education-program-gets-an-f-audit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2249],"tags":[1288939,68,1288930,3026],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","tag-accountability","tag-canada","tag-government","tag-native-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}