primary schools to receive additional funding

The Age, Jewel Topsfield, 12 March 2008

The Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA) will be presenting the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Ms Julia Gillard, with a proposal calling for the government to provide more funding for primary schools in the 2009-2012 funding period.

The proposal comes as a result of primary school principals believing that they have been left out of the ‘education revolution’. A recent report conducted by the APPA, In Balance: The Future of Australia’s Primary Schools, found that
only six per cent of primary school principals had sufficient resources.

President of the Australian Government Primary Principals Association, Mr Tony McGruther said that ‘the announcements to date…haven’t included primary schools. We are looking forward to hearing announcements about further funding for primary schools’.

A spokesperson for Ms Gillard said that ‘the Rudd Government understands the crucial role played by primary schools
in teaching young Australians…that is why this government has highlighted primary schools as an area of special funding priority’.

Ms Gillard’s spokesperson also announced that planned funding programmes would benefit primary schools, including ‘$62.5 million for school infrastructure partnerships, $489 million to install solar panels in schools and $15.9 million for
the early development index’.

 

 

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