{"id":5065,"date":"2020-02-10T01:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T01:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2020-02-10T01:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T01:05:54","slug":"halfway-to-clearing-the-nsw-school-maintenance-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/halfway-to-clearing-the-nsw-school-maintenance-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"HALFWAY TO CLEARING THE NSW SCHOOL MAINTENANCE BACKLOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of the school maintenance backlog has been cleared, with local trades putting the finishing touches on school maintenance projects at NSW public schools.<br \/>\nMinister for Education and Early Childhood Learning Sarah Mitchell said the NSW Government is on track to deliver the $1.3 billion election commitment to wipe the school maintenance backlog to zero by July 2020.<br \/>\n\u201cMore than $200 million has been spent on 968 maintenance projects at public schools across metro and regional NSW during the summer holidays, leaving only 47 percent of the backlog left to clear,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe effort made by tradespeople, builders and department staff across the state has been incredible, handling both the task of bushfire recovery for day one and pushing on with our maintenance commitment.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have completed projects at NSW public schools across the state; sprucing classrooms, fixing rooves and tidying up grounds.<br \/>\nWith more than 2200 schools in the NSW public education system, these maintenance works are vital to providing world-class facilities for students and staff across the State.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have used enough paint to fill nine backyard pools and laid enough floor to cover 40 football fields,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.<br \/>\n\u201cI want to reassure families that schools impacted by bushfires over the holiday period will not miss out, all planned maintenance work will still be carried out at these schools.\u201d<br \/>\nThe NSW Government has made the largest investment into public school infrastructure by any State government in Australian history. For more information about the NSW Government school maintenance commitment visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolinfrastructure.nsw.gov.au\/programs\/planned-maintenance.html\">https:\/\/www.schoolinfrastructure.nsw.gov.au\/programs\/planned-maintenance.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of the school maintenance backlog has been cleared, with local trades putting the finishing touches on school maintenance projects at NSW public schools. Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning Sarah Mitchell said the NSW Government is on track to deliver the $1.3 billion election commitment to wipe the school maintenance backlog &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/halfway-to-clearing-the-nsw-school-maintenance-backlog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HALFWAY TO CLEARING THE NSW SCHOOL MAINTENANCE BACKLOG&#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-5065","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\/5065","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=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}