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March 24, 2004

SOARing Beyond the FRAME Report

Executive Summary

  • In 1984, the Province of Manitoba’s Department of Education implemented a system to account for spending on public schools, the Financial Reporting and Accounting in Manitoba Education (FRAME) report.
  • Largely patterned on reporting systems in Alberta and Minnesota, FRAME requires school divisions to utilize the same format in reporting revenues and expenditures.
  • The FRAME report is divided into Operating Funds and Capital Funds. Operating Funds are further sub-divided into individual line items.
  • While this report makes it possible to compare school divisions budgets accurately, it only measures inputs and ignores outcomes.
  • While FRAME provides an excellent system for holding school divisions financially accountable, no such tool exists to hold them accountable for student achievement.
  • A new reporting format modelled on FRAME should be implemented. It would require school divisions to utilize the same format for reporting student achievement.
  • The new report would be called the Student Overall Achievement Report (SOAR
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  • Categories would include standards tests results, teacher assessment of students, graduation rates, attrition and attendance.

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    Author's Picture Dennis Owens was the Frontier's Senior Policy Analyst (1997-2007). A descendant of homesteaders near Portage la Prairie, he graduated from the University of Winnipeg in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science. Over a 20-year career in the transportation business, he rose to the position of operations manager of a Winnipeg-based firm. Since then he has researched and written about Canadian public policy issues for a variety of organizations including the Manitoba Taxpayers Association and the Prairie Centre. His specialties at the Frontier Centre include municipal issues, public education, healthcare and aboriginal policy. His frequent exposure in electronic and print media has included a regular commentary on CBC radio and articles printed in the Wall Street Journal and the National Post

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