{"id":11793,"date":"2021-06-16T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11793"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:02:55","slug":"44-new-and-upgraded-schools-for-nsw-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/44-new-and-upgraded-schools-for-nsw-students\/","title":{"rendered":"44 new and upgraded schools for NSW students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is increasing its historic investment in new and upgraded schools, delivering funding for 44 new and upgraded school projects announced as part of the 2021\/22 Budget.<br \/>\nThis includes funding for 30 projects that were prioritised for planning and 14 new works in areas of high need.<br \/>\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian said the school building pipeline has already invested billions of dollars into new and upgraded schools, with 50 delivered last year alone.<br \/>\n\u201cThis budget continues our historic school infrastructure investment with an additional $2.1 billion spend to deliver new and upgraded schools across NSW,\u201d Ms Berejiklian said.<br \/>\n\u201cSince 2019, this government has delivered more than 100 new and upgraded schools \u2013 it\u2019s an important achievement, but we are not done.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 2021\/22 Budget will include funding to deliver:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new primary school in Gregory Hills<\/li>\n<li>A new primary school at Westmead<\/li>\n<li>The new selective high school in Southwest Sydney<\/li>\n<li>The relocation of Wee Waa High School<\/li>\n<li>A new high school in Marsden Park<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Springs Public School \u2013 Stage 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the government is providing for families across the state and in growth areas.<br \/>\n\u201cCommunities have never seen investment in education like this before, including in high growth areas. Western Sydney alone is seeing an additional $2 billion investment in new works,\u201d Mr Perrottet said.<br \/>\nMinister for Education Sarah Mitchell said that the investment in schools is an investment in the future of NSW.<br \/>\n\u201cThis budget shows yet again that we are a government that delivers on its commitments. We plan for schools \u2013 and then, once planning is complete, we fund them for construction,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis historic program began in 2017 and since then, we have spent more than $7 billion on new and upgraded schools. The additional funds in this Budget grow the pipeline to $7.9 billion worth of investment in new and upgraded schools over the next four years, making this a $15 billion school building program.<br \/>\n\u201cAcross NSW, thousands and thousands of students are benefitting from new and upgraded schools, and this will continue under this government.\u201d<br \/>\nThese initiatives will be announced as part of the 2021\/22 Budget with the NSW Government continuing its program to deliver 215 new and upgraded schools representing an injection of $7.9 billion into the NSW economy over the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is increasing its historic investment in new and upgraded schools, delivering funding for 44 new and upgraded school projects announced as part of the 2021\/22 Budget. This includes funding for 30 projects that were prioritised for planning and 14 new works in areas of high need. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the school &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/44-new-and-upgraded-schools-for-nsw-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;44 new and upgraded schools for NSW students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}