- Target:
- The Hon Mike Baird,Shop 2 2 Wentworth St MANLY NSW 2095 mike.baird@nsw.liberal.org.au
- Region:
- Australia
For the first time ever, all Catholic schools in NSW face a radical and immediate cut to their NSW government subsidy.
The Bishops of NSW are advised that the NSW Government is about to announce an unprecedented cut to the recurrent grant for NSW non-government schools of $66.7 million per year, or 8% of the 2012 total.
We understand that from January 2013, state government funding for Catholic systemic schools is to be cut by $24.5 million per year. Catholic independent schools will face immediate cuts of up to $496 per student.
We the undersigned, call on the NSW government to reconsider the Budget cuts to all NSW catholic schools.
While the Catholic community recognises that in tough economic times governments seek to cut expenditures, we believe it is false economy to deprive our young people of educational opportunities. We expect government always to act fairly in such situations and not make the situation for struggling families worse.
Parents with children in Catholic systemic schools already pay the same state taxes as anyone else and yet get only 25% of the state government recurrent funding per student that government schools get.
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The Stop State Government Funding Cuts to Catholic Schools petition to The Hon Mike Baird,Shop 2 2 Wentworth St MANLY NSW 2095 mike.baird@nsw.liberal.org.au was written by Kate Casswell and is in the category Education at GoPetition.