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Lagoon Public School gets $140k

THANK

YOU

LABOUR!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25735391-1242,00.html

A SCHOOL with just one pupil for 2010 has been given a $140,000 government grant 
to build a covered playground - even though it already has a new one.

Another $110,000 grant from the Rudd Government's $14.7 billion education 
stimulus package will be used for classroom refurbishment at tiny The Lagoon 
Public School, 20km from Bathurst in New South Wales central west.

But even locals say it is a shocking waste of money. The tiny rural school has 
one teacher and five pupils, two of whom go to high school next year.

The mother of two girls there said she was considering transferring them to a 
larger school.

That would leave just one pupil - the teacher's daughter - as the beneficiary of 
the federal funds.

The school is one of 1500 to receive Primary Schools for the 21st Century 
program funds.

Government documents show it has been given $140,000 for a covered open learning 
area (COLA) and $110,000 for "upgraded classrooms".

But a neighbour told The Sunday Telegraph that the school had a new shaded 
learning area built just two years ago.

"This school has been granted $250,000 for a COLA and classroom refurbishment - 
it already has a COLA, which was built over summer approximately two years ago," 
he said.

Monica Betts, whose daughters attend the school, said the funds could have been 
spent attracting more pupils.

"It is a lot of money," she said. "They could have spent $50,000 trying to get 
more people here."

NSW Opposition education spokesman Adrian Piccoli said the program had been flawed.

"Small schools need to be maintained, just like larger schools do, but it's the 
height of incompetence to spend borrowed money on unnecessary projects," he said.

The Opposition cited five new schools that received funding under the 21st 
Century scheme.

One was John Palmer Public School, which got $546,000, despite opening only last 
year.

Australian Council of State School Organisations president Steve Carter said he 
was extremely frustrated by the scheme's inequitable allocation.

"We would very much prefer a tighter, better thought out, needs-based allocation 
of funding, managed properly to give local school communities the resources they 
need," he said.

Arthur Phillip High School, in Parramatta, had sought money to repair its walls, 
floors, roofs and sewerage, but was rejected.

Keira High School missed out on funds from the Science and Language Centres 
program, despite labs, built in the late 1960s, being below safety standards.

Rooty Hill High also missed out, despite mould in its labs and cupboards falling 
off the wall.

Federal Education Minister Julie Gillard blamed the NSW Government for the 
funding decision and sought an urgent review of the school's eligibility.

"The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) must have assessed that it 
was in need of new or refurbished facilities," a spokesman said.

"The Deputy Prime Minister has requested her department to hold immediate 
discussions with the NSW DET to investigate claims that this school may be 
non-viable in 2010".

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"Silly old bugger!"
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"By 1990, no child will live in poverty"
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"A billion trees ..."
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"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor 
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