The NSW Opposition is calling on the Minns Labor Government to come clean on its cuts to maintenance spending at public schools across the state.
Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said the Minns Labor Government\u2019s so-called \u2018infrastructure blitz\u2019 is providing less funding than had been allocated by the former Liberal and Nationals Government.
“This is just more smoke and mirrors from Labor on school infrastructure,\u201d Mr Speakman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Treasurer\u2019s claim of a \u2018record\u2019 $1.08 billion pipeline for maintenance and minor capital works does not stand up to scrutiny as the Coalition allocated $1.3 billion on the same types of projects in the 2022-23 Budget.
“This $220 million cut is a result of Premier Chris Minns losing control of the Budget, and our public schools will be worse off as a result.”
Shadow Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said families deserve to know what the true impact of Labor\u2019s lies will be.
\u201cThe detail of this announcement is where the shocking truth becomes apparent,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.
\u201cLabor is allocating less money for school maintenance this financial year than the former Liberal and Nationals Government because it handed the keys to the NSW Budget to the unions and is cutting expenditure across the board as a result.
\u201cThat means schools will have less money to spend on facilities for your kids. That\u2019s
things like classroom and toilet upgrades, painting, carpets, fences and new windows and doors.\u201d
Today\u2019s announcement follows Labor\u2019s decision to rip $150m out of public school budgets mid-way through the year, forcing school principals to consider cutting staff and programs to find savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NSW Opposition is calling on the Minns Labor Government to come clean on its cuts to maintenance spending at public schools across the state. Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said the Minns Labor Government\u2019s so-called \u2018infrastructure blitz\u2019 is providing less funding than had been allocated by the former Liberal and Nationals Government. “This is just more smoke … Continue reading “Low marks for Labor on public school spend”<\/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-27150","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\/27150","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=27150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27151,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27150\/revisions\/27151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}