Trustees of the Lambton-Kent District School Board approved a balanced budget totaling $260,373,093 for the 2016/2017 school year.
The revenue forecast is based on the Grants for Student Needs (GSN) education funding model, which determines the Board’s operating grants and school renewal grants provided by the Ministry of Education.
The 2016/17 budget has been developed on a projected enrolment of 21,495 students.
The overall total staff for the 2016/17 school year will be about 2,343.9 FTE employees.
The Board is entering the third year of the rollout of the multi-year technology upgrade project, focused on building a 21st Century Technology Infrastructure Network throughout the Lambton Kent District School Board.
This project is key to providing all of our 21,495 students and 2,000 educators with the technologies for tomorrow’s classroom. Creating a more mobile platform, improved access to digital resources and a technology platform that is faster and easier to use are the outcomes being designed into this project to support classroom innovation and student engagement.
The total budget for the entire project is estimated at $4.6 Million dollars.
For this new school year $1.0M dollars has been included in the budget from the Board’s reserves to carry-out the 3rd phase of this technology plan.
This improved infrastructure will support the Board’s Technology Enriched Learning Plan whereby every LKDSB Grade 7 student will receive an iPad.
The budget year runs from September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017.
