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• Parental Involvement: Teacher and parent satisfaction with parental involvement in decisions about their child’s education.
o Results and evaluations for each respondent group: teachers and parents.
• Budget-Actual Comparison: School authorities (school boards & charter schools only) report the “Total Expenses” line from Schedule 12 (“Unaudited Schedule of Variance Analysis”) comparing and explaining the difference in the amount budgeted for 2020/2021, the actual spent and the variance (in both amount and %).
Required Local Component
Summary of Financial Results:
• The school authority must identify and report results from local measures that yield useful data and/or provide a succinct description of the processes and strategies to demonstrate that the school authority has effectively managed its resources including how it collaborated with other school authorities, municipalities and community agencies.
• School boards and charter schools must include a web link to the Audited Financial Statements (AFS) and related unaudited schedules and a web link to the provincial roll up of AFS information:https://www.alberta.ca/k-12-education-financial-statements.aspx.
• Accredited funded private school authorities may include a web link to the Audited Financial Statements (AFS) and related unaudited scheduled or provide a financial results summary that:
o Provides key financial information about the school year, including information on how the authority spent its funding, significant changes over the prior year (if any) and whether spending was within budget and if not, indicate why and how deficits will be addressed.
o Includes program expenditure information in a table or graph format, complete with amounts, for the primary audience – parents and other members of the school’s community.
• Indicate where more information can be obtained (e.g. contact at central office).
Stakeholder Engagement: Processes, strategies and local measures/data to demonstrate that stakeholders were engaged to develop priorities and share progress and results. This must include:
• What stakeholders were involved?
• How were they engaged?
• How results and related information were shared?
• How the school authority met its obligations under the School Councils Regulation to provide school councils the opportunity to provide advice on the development of school AERRs and to share results from provincial assessments and information from its reporting and accountability system (school boards and charter schools only).
Accountability/Assurance System: School authorities must outline the features of their accountability/assurance system for schools (or provide a link to the information) that includes:
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how the school authority is ensuring schools are providing assurance to their communities that they are meeting their responsibilities
how the school authority is supporting continuous improvement and evidence-informed decision making
the requirements for the process, content and format for school education plans and results reports.
Funding Manual 2021/22 138 Classification: Public