{"id":499,"date":"2018-11-13T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=499"},"modified":"2018-11-13T03:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:19:11","slug":"pottsville-to-get-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/pottsville-to-get-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Pottsville To Get High School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNSW Labor today committed to build a new public high school at Pottsville.
\nThe announcement was made by NSW Labor Opposition leader Luke Foley and Country Labor candidate for the Tweed, Craig Elliot on the State\u2019s North Coast.
\nLabor\u2019s action is in stark contrast with the Berejiklian Government\u2019s failure to support the construction of a local high school in Pottsville.\u00a0 The community has been calling for a high school for more than a decade due to population growth in the area.
\nPottsville Beach Public School is bursting at the seams and it is expected to have up to 1,000 students.
\nCurrently, there are more than 750 secondary students who have to travel for at least 30 minutes each way by bus north to Kingscliff High School and another 100 schoolchildren are forced to travel to other district government high schools such as Murwillumbah High School.
\nA parcel of land has been set aside for a school with the support of the local Tweed Shire Council, but the State Government has refused to purchase the land.
\nConstruction would begin in the first term of a Foley Labor Government. NSW Labor has allocated $40 million for the high school. \u2013 The Berejiklian Government has the wrong priorities \u2013 preferring to splurge on Sydney stadiums rather than fund schools and hospitals in rural and regional NSW.
\nTweed National MP Geoff Provest promised to build a Pottsville high school in 2007, but after 11 years, he has failed to deliver\u00a0 and now he just ignores the community, claiming that there is no need for a\u00a0 new high school in what is a rapidly growing area of the State\u2019s North Coast
\nQuotes attributable to NSW Opposition leader Luke Foley MP<\/strong>
\n\u201cMake no mistake, NSW Labor and Craig Elliot will build a high school at Pottsville.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThe case is clear. Pottsville needs a high school and only a NSW Labor Government will build it.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u201cThe Nationals have the wrong priorities. They want to splurge billions on stadiums in Sydney rather than investing in schools and hospitals.\u201d<\/em>
\nQuotes attributable to Country Labor candidate for the Tweed \u2013 Craig Elliot<\/strong>
\n\u201cI\u2019m out listening and talking to locals every day and the calls for a public high school for Pottsville are growing louder and louder.
\n\u201cPottsville has a huge number of young families and locals are sick of having their needs ignored by the National Party.
\n\u201cIt is unfair for their children to spend countless hours a week on the bus going to other high schools when there is a clear need for a high school at Pottsville.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NSW Labor today committed to build a new public high school at Pottsville. The announcement was made by NSW Labor Opposition leader Luke Foley and Country Labor candidate for the Tweed, Craig Elliot on the State\u2019s North Coast. Labor\u2019s action is in stark contrast with the Berejiklian Government\u2019s failure to support the construction of a … Continue reading “Pottsville To Get High School”<\/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-499","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\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}