Indigenous students leaving their homes for education

1. School mobility and educational outcomes of off-reserve First Nations students (StatCan)

1.1. "Compared with students who did not change schools, those who did tended to have less favourable academic outcomes: movers in Grades 1 to 6 were more likely to have repeated a grade and to have received help from a tutor; movers in Grades 7 to 12 were less likely to get mostly As on their report card or to be happy at school and more likely to have repeated a grade."

1.2. "the rates of school mobility among First Nations students are important in understanding their academic outcomes."

1.3. School mobility and educational outcomes of off-reserve First Nations students

2. The Problem with Aboriginal Education in Canada and what you can do about it by Lisa Charleyboy

2.1. "There are three kinds of First Nations education in Canada delivered to Aboriginal students. Federal schools that are controlled by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC), provincial schools, and local schools operated by First Nations communities. Sixty-five percent of the 120,000 eligible on-reserve First Nations students attend the latter."

2.2. "The issue with the majority of these schools is that they are grossly under-funded. Paul Martin has stated to the Toronto Star that the per capita funding for a First Nations child going to elementary or high school is anywhere from 20 to 40 percent lower than what non-native kids get on a per capita basis."

2.3. https://www.jobpostings.ca/career-guides/aboriginal/problem-aboriginal-education-canada-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

2.4. "Many of these schools aren't able to recruit and retain qualified teachers to work on remote and rural reservations, even though teachers can teach without a Bachelors of Education (Bed). Because I work in recruitment for a university and visit many of these schools in Ontario, I have also witnessed firsthand how few of these schools offer the courses required for entrance into university. These students are already forced to only be able to be college ready, and never given the opportunity to challenge themselves with these courses."

3. The book "Seven Fallen Feathers" by Tanya Talaga covers this topic

3.1. “Jordan is the seventh student to go missing or die while at school,” Stan said. Since 2000, Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Paul Panacheese, Robyn Harper, Reggie Bushie, and Kyle Morrisseau had died. Now Jordan Wabasse was missing. Stan told me the seven students were from communities and families hundreds of kilometres away in the remote regions of northern Ontario, where there are very few high schools. Each was forced to leave their reserve to pursue their education."

3.2. "The last residential school in Canada was shut down in the 1990s. The federal government, through Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), was then supposed to fund and maintain schools for Indigenous children. But across Canada, this promise has never been properly fulfilled. The quality of teaching standards and equipment at reserve schools varies widely from coast to coast. Fundamentals that other school jurisdictions take for granted, such as libraries, gymnasiums, and science labs, are routinely absent."

3.3. Article and excerpt: Why Indigenous students risk leaving home for their education | TVO.org