Posted: Mar 09, 2021 8:12 PM AT | Last Updated: March 10
P.E.I.'s auditor general says 137 international students attended Island schools during the 2019-20 school year, paying $1.5 million in tuition to the province, but that the Department of Education 'does not have processes to effectively manage' the program that brought them here.(John Robertson/CBC)
A program that allows international students from kindergarten to Grade 12 to attend public school on P.E.I. — at a cost to their families of more than $10,000 in tuition payments per year — lacked basic safeguards to ensure their safety while living in the province, according to a report from the province's auditor general.