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“Our members are discovering that it is a lot to ask for in the current climate, especially in our low resources communities,” he said.

“Public education should be a great equalizer. Each child deserves access to a complete and fair education experience.”

The CEO of the Federation, Gemma Quinn, said she had seen a language change after the principals have been warned that they had presented the contributions of the parents as mandatory. Previously Quinn has been accused of an “school withdrawal” of $ 244 as well as a voluntary contribution of $ 75 for one of his children.

The data arrive after the state government has signed a school funding agreement with their federal counterparts, which will involve an extra $ 4.8 billion dollars of taxpayers who flows in public schools in the next decade.

The plan to increase the funding comes later The public school budgets have been cut, Vice principals were forced to return to class and some schools Weekly interstrutical sports. Because they could not afford to take buses.

Based on the financing agreement, the share of the federal government of public school funding will increase from 20 to 25 %, although extra liquidity is linked to education reforms aimed at lifting the students’ results.

The push by billions of dollars means that the public schools of the new South Wales will reach 100 % of the Standard of school resources – The amount of money that a school requires to meet the educational needs of its students.

Last month asked what his priorities were to spend extra money, the Minister of Education of the New South Wales, Prue Car, said that a number of numbering screening tests would take place next year.

“Really, our goal is to ensure that we focus on literacy and numbering, presence, well -being, all the things that all teachers outside know. In reality it is not about reinventing the wheel,” he said.

Penny Allman-Payne, spokesman for the Federal Greens Education, said that the agreement gave the “minimum” for the financing of the public schools of the new South Wales in a decade.

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“Under the Greens plan to make public schools truly free, we will finance all 100 % public schools of the standards of school resources from next year and provide additional funding to eliminate commissions,” he said.

“And to help satisfy the growing costs of pockets such as uniforms and technology, we will give families back-to-it-to-school payments of $ 800 for every child who attend public school.”

He said that in the event of a minority government after the federal elections, making the public school truly free and completely financed would be “on the table” in any negotiation.

The Secretary of Education Murat Dizdar said that every child in the new South Wales had the right of education without quality taxes.

“Public schools are financed by the governments of the new South Wales and Commonwealth to meet the educational needs of students, with record investments in the NSW public schools this year,” he said.

“Public schools can ask families to make voluntary contributions; however, making a contribution to the local school is 100 %voluntary.”

With Mary Ward

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