CBE Budget Where Do $s Come From? For the 2018-19 school year: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

CBE Budget – Where Do $s Come From? For the 2018-19 school year:  94 per cent of funding came from the provincial government  14 per cent of this funding is restricted for specific uses  In recent years, provincial funding has increased to support student enrolment growth.

CBE Budget – Where Do $s Come From? For the 2018-19 school year:  The other six per cent was generated from school fees, school fundraising activities, facility rentals and investment income

CBE Budget – Where Do $s Go?  The entire organization supports student learning  75 per cent the entire CBE budget is for salaries and benefits

CBE Budget – Where Do $s Go?  27 cents of every dollar go to services and supports that directly support the work of schools. Of this:  Six cents fund centralized student supports  Four cents fund service unit instruction supports  Ten cents goes to plant, operations and maintenance  Three cents goes to transportation  Four cents goes to board and system administration

CBE Budget – Where Do $s Go?  73 cents of every dollar go directly to schools through the Resource Allocation Model (RAM). This is the school budget and includes:  Teacher and staff salaries  Instructional supplies and materials  RAM allocation is deployed to meet the needs of all students at the school.  Funds are not allocated based on specific students

School Budget – More About RAM  RAM funds schools based on enrolment and student population complexity  It also provides instructional supports at the Area and central level to ensure responsive programming and service delivery

School Budget – The RAM Process and Timeline  Mid-February – RAM estimate based on enrolment projections for the upcoming school year  March-April – provincial budget and CBE Budget Assumptions Report (BAR)  Mid to late April – RAM allocation process for upcoming school year  May-June – CBE budget submitted to Alberta Education  September-Oct. – Budgets finalized based on actual student enrolment

School Budget – RAM Supports Student Learning  The school budget is the resources we have to implement our School Development Plan and other supports for student learning. Some of the factors we consider are:  What are the priority outcomes and strategies for students?  What supplies, resources and equipment is required to support learning goals?  Do we need to invest in professional development or mentoring?

Our 2018-19 School Budget  Our student enrolment for the current year was 775 . Our school budget was: RAM Allocations Per School total $ 585,316 Per Student total $ 4,325,073 Total RAM Allocations $ 4,910,389 RAM deployment Scenario A Organization FTEs Teachers $ 4,074,073 40.3 Support staff $ 128,402 2.4 Administration $ 433,858 5.2 Total staffing $ 4,636,333 47.8 Supplies /other $ 274,056 Total RAM deployment plans $ 4,910,389

Our 2018-19 School Budget Staff deployment is based on a lot of variables: Student needs and feedback in surveys from parents and students Staff expertise Emerging needs PATs and gaps we might be seeing – how we can best address these English Language Learners Trying to keep class sizes low while keeping as many of our specialists as possible

Our 2019-20 School Budget  Our student enrolment projection for the 2019-20 school year is 710. Below is an estimate based on the 2018-2019 RAM formulas RAM Allocations Per School total $ 539,693 Per Student total $ 3,860,202 Total RAM Allocations $ 4,399,895 RAM deployment Scenario A Organization FTEs Teachers $ 3,638,545 35.9 Support staff $ 87,379 1.7 Administration $ 490,111 5.8 Total staffing $ 4,216,034 43.4 Supplies /other $ 183,861 $ Total RAM deployment plans 4,399,895

Our 2019-20 School Budget  A decrease of 70 students plus the loss of many coded learners means that we will be losing approximately 5 teachers next year  Tough choices we need to make:  What’s in the best interest of our learners and school  Specialist outside of core classes  Fewer people to do the work – concerns over extracurricular and burning people out  Class sizes

Questions Do you have any questions about any of this information so far?

Share Your Perspectives Reflect on the following three questions to help us understand what is important to you as we complete our RAM in May/refine our RAM in the fall  As a school community, we should continue doing…  As a school community, we should stop doing/change how we do…  As a school community, we should start doing…

Next Steps  Share your feedback about this meeting at http://tinyurl.com/y3lhdddy  We will update our school website with:  Feedback gathered at tonight’s session by May’s school council meeting  Meeting evaluation summary by next school council  School development plan by November 30 th  Join us in the fall to hear about our actual student enrolment, any budget adjustments and how feedback could or could not influence the adjustments made