Public School Funding Still Many Issues

Despite the back down on the ludicrous Work Cover levy, the State Government is still hell bent on pursuing deep cuts in public school funding. Treasurer Kevin Folly has an agenda of efficiency dividend. Quite where these are going to come from with schools having classroom budgets for kids of around $50 a year and money for computer upgrades hard to come by without Commonwealth support.

There is only so much fundraising and fee raising that Public Schools can do.

Despite the fact that Public Education preschools and schools have been subjected to more than two decades of cost cutting and so called ‘efficiency’ drives this State Labor Government seems intent on extracting $54 million from 2008 to 2010 from cash strapped preschools and schools.

The Fight Continues!

Thanks AEU SA