EFIS Instructions
2025-26
2025-26 Estimates
Section 7
Section 7A

Section 7A - Trustees and Parent Engagement Allocation

This allocation provides funding for trustees and student trustees as well as for parent engagement activities.

1. Trustees Component

This component is calculated based on amounts entered on the 7A. 7B. INPUT tab, funding benchmarks, the school board’s geographic area and dispersal factor from O. Reg. 412/00 (Elections to and Representation on District School Boards), and the school board’s 2024-25 Estimates ADE.

  • Items 1.1 to 1.6 calculate the funding entitlement for trustee honoraria under the approach used prior to 2006, with the total “old” entitlement at item 1.6.

  • In 2006, the ministry amended the formula for trustee honoraria, calculating separate amounts for base, chair and vice-chair, attendance, distance, and enrolment. This is calculated at items 1.7 to 1.17, with the total “new” amount at item 1.17.

  • The ministry funds 100% of the pre-2006 trustee honoraria amount (item 1.6) plus 50% of the difference between the old and new trustee honoraria amounts (calculated at item 1.19). The total funded trustee honoraria amount is at item 1.20.

  • In addition, trustee expenses are funded at $5,000 x the number of trustees at item 1.4.

2. Student Trustee Component

This component funds student trustee honoraria and expenses. School boards can elect up to three student trustees, and the funding calculation is based on the sum of the days each student trustee is in office.

  • Items 2.1 and 2.2 display the number of student trustees and cumulative days in office, from amounts entered on the 7A. 7B. INPUT tab.

  • The funded student trustee honoraria is calculated at item 2.4, as 50% of the amount that student trustees are entitled to (item 2.3).

  • Expenses are funded at $5,000 per student trustee (item 2.5).

3. Parent Engagement Component

This component is provided to support the parent engagement activities of each school board, through the following amounts:

  • Item 3.1 (Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) amount): calculated as a board amount plus a per pupil amount;

  • Item 3.2 (School Council amount): calculated as a per school amount, with an additional amount generated for combined schools with at least 350 ADE and at least 100 ADE in each panel;

  • Item 3.3 (Parents Reaching Out (PRO) amount): calculated as a board amount plus a per school amount, with an additional amount generated for combined schools with at least 350 ADE and at least 100 ADE in each panel.

TAB: 7A. Parent Engagement - Detail / Report: Section 7A - Parent Engagement Component - School Level

This tab (and corresponding school level report) calculates the school-based portions of parent engagement funding. The total values in the final two columns are included in the board-level report, at items 3.2 and 3.3.

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