Acknowledgments

The Fraser Institute wishes to acknowledge the generous support for this project from the Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation and the W. Garfield Weston Foundation. We are also pleased to acknowledge the assistance of Ted Brown of the Vancouver office of Statistics Canada. His advice and assistance in the development of the database of socio-economic characteristics were most valuable. Thanks also to the employees of Policy, Evaluation, and Analysis; Data Management and Student Certification; and Communications at the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Their prompt, effective, and courteous responses to our many data requests made our work much easier.