Home
Schools for Profit: Not in NSW!
Legislation passed by the NSW Government on Tuesday 26 September 2006 left open a massive loophole that will allow private for-profit schools to milk the public purse.
The legislation fails to stop private schools making a profit while still receiving their share of $730 million in state government grants. It allows unrestricted payments to members of the school's governing body without affecting its public funding.
All a profit-seeking corporation needs to do is put themselves or a shelf company on the school's governing body and pay themselves a huge fee. Public money will inevitably end up as corporate profits.
The NSW Government rejected Greens amendments that would have closed this gaping loophole.
For more information:
-
"Education is the government's business", opinion piece by John Kaye published in the Newcastle Herald, 3 October 2006
Wealthy private schools show no mercy to parents in trouble
The public purse shows abundant generosity to six elite institutions that are driving parents who fall on hard times into bankruptcy, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
First govt MP breaks ranks on public school land sell-off
The Rees government’s united front on the sale of Hurlstone Agricultural High School’s farm land has collapsed, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Hidden Hurlstone High sale details put pressure on budget
Within days of announcing the sale of Hurlstone Agricultural High School’s farm land in Sydney’s South-West, NSW Education Minister Verity Firth’s office was warned by her own department that only 50 hectares of the 140 hectare site could go to developers, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Community takes no Hurlstone farm sale message to parliament
A meeting of over 120 people in the NSW parliament today has sent a clear message to Education Minister Verity Firth that the government should abandon plans to sell any of the land at Hurlstone Agricultural High School in southwest Sydney, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Willoughby Public Forum: Clean energy future for NSW
