School stimulus plan fails test for neediest (fwd link)

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School stimulus plan fails test for neediest

Justine Ferrari, Education reporter | September 02, 2009
Article from:  The Australian

THE neediest high schools in Australia have been denied funding to build science
labs and language centres after the federal government ignored its own
guidelines and redirected $200 million to help pay for a blowout in its primary
school building program.

The Australian understands 140 of the nation's most disadvantaged and
under-resourced high schools have missed out on the new facilities after the
government last week cancelled a planned second round of the $1billion program.

The three schools judged by an independent panel to be most in need of the
science labs and language centres are in remote areas and have a high
proportion of indigenous students. They had applied for projects with a
combined value of $3 million but have received not one cent between them.

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