Foothills School Division Annual Budget
Our 2025-2026 Budget was approved by the Board of Trustees on June 25, 2025
The Foothills School Division Lead Team have completed a thorough review of the stakeholder engagement feedback collected throughout the year. FSD received several responses from partners in education to the Ideas that Make Cents engagement opportunity as well as considered feedback received by email and discussions with our leadership teams. Through this process we have identified the following priorities:
- Increase frontline staff wherever possible (teachers and educational assistants)
- Implement user fees for transportation
- Centralize administrative services
- Increase advocacy efforts to improve funding in schools
- Expand community access to facility rentals
Changes & Initiatives
- The Alberta Education Assurance Funding Model and changes to the funding framework.
- A focus on supporting the key priorities identified in FSD’s Education Plan.
- A decrease in enrollment throughout the Division. This is in part due to delayed development in growing municipalities and decreasing birth rate in the region.
- Continued academic supports for Numeracy and Literacy.
- Ongoing development and necessary increase of youth mental health supports. The Division is working towards a centralized support model that will ensure that each student’s unique needs are met with tailored supports.
- The Division continues to enhance educational outcomes through the implementation of new curriculum.
- Continued focus on enhancing the wellness and well-being of our students, staff team, families, and communities.
- The Foothills School Division continues to provide high quality professional development for teachers. Our priorities continue to target designing engaging learning for students through authentic, relevant learning opportunities, providing differentiated instruction as well as quality assessment practices.
- The province continues to promote and facilitate an increased awareness in First Nation, Métis, and Inuit education
- Changes to curriculum and focusing on the Truth and Reconciliation recommendations continue to play a part within the work of the Foothills School Division.
- Advancing community partnerships by placing education at the centre of a flourishing Foothills community.
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