Alex Hemingway: Private schools receive public funds while special-needs students go without

As the B.C. government consults on how it will allocate money in its next budget, a potentially easy win awaits on the education front.
Every year, the provincial government provides hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to private schools, including elite prep schools. Given that B.C.’s public education system has been severely underfunded for most of the past two decades — and is still failing to adequately support students with special needs — this use of pu