CEU Monitoring
CEU monitoring provides an opportunity to make sure all school boards receive funding based on the same criteria, and ensures that all students have equal access to quality learning opportunities. If monitoring reveals that funding and programming criteria are not being met, Alberta Education may recover funding.
Monitoring takes place after funding has been granted to schools because it is a review of information that school jurisdictions submit to the province once the school year is complete.
As Alberta Education is accountable to the people of Alberta, and the Auditor General, the department randomly selects approximately 250 schools for an annual provincial CEU monitoring.
In addition, on-site visits are conducted at some schools where abnormalities in the funding data indicate follow-up is required. As part of the monitoring visits, Alberta Education staff works closely with school staff to review student assessment documents, attendance records, timetables, and course outlines to ensure that funding and programming requirements are being met.
At the end of the visit, schools are presented with preliminary findings. Alberta Education then uses this information to compile a more comprehensive CEU Monitoring Results Report for each school.
Last spring, Alberta Education visited 15 of the 601 schools receiving CEU funding. All final reports for the spring 2006 on-site monitoring have been reviewed and discussed by staff from the school, school jurisdiction and the CEU Monitoring Branch in a new draft report review process. All schools and jurisdictions had an opportunity to provide further documentation and information related to report findings, prior to the final report release.
