{"id":5335,"date":"2020-03-03T16:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2020-03-03T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:45:28","slug":"private-school-favouritism-confirmed-with-broad-slush-fund-guidelines-new-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/private-school-favouritism-confirmed-with-broad-slush-fund-guidelines-new-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Private School Favouritism Confirmed With Broad Slush Fund Guidelines &amp; New Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Education spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has said that private schools will be able to spend the $1.2 billion \u2018Choice and Affordability\u2019 slush fund with enormous discretion.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aph.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1f20735217fb7df5078bb8602&amp;id=3ebb95b346&amp;e=5cb91fd340\">Flexible guidelines for the fund<\/a>\u00a0have been released as parliament debates handing out a further $3.4 billion for private schools.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cPrivate schools will have enormous freedom to spend this public money on practically whatever they want. Meanwhile, public schools continue to suffer without having their basic needs met.<br \/>\n\u201cThis latest handout reflects the Liberal government\u2019s obsession with giving out cash to already over-funded private schools. The Greens have warned about this from the start.<br \/>\n\u201cNow the Government has a bill before parliament that would gift a further $3.4 billion to private schools. I urge the Opposition and crossbench to oppose this bill and stop the handouts and special deals.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s way past time to prioritise public school funding and stand up to the private school lobbies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Education spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has said that private schools will be able to spend the $1.2 billion \u2018Choice and Affordability\u2019 slush fund with enormous discretion.\u00a0Flexible guidelines for the fund\u00a0have been released as parliament debates handing out a further $3.4 billion for private schools. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cPrivate schools &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/private-school-favouritism-confirmed-with-broad-slush-fund-guidelines-new-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Private School Favouritism Confirmed With Broad Slush Fund Guidelines &amp; New Bill&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","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=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}