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Putting Public Education First
Public education and its values spent a decade under direct attack from the Howard government. The Rees/Iemma/Carr government has failed to protect them and has itself not provided adequate funding, while the new Rudd government appears set to continue with a funding system that reinforces the advantages of the rich.
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27 schools serving the most disadvantaged communities in the state will lose their Priority Actions Schools Program (PASP) funding from 2009. The sale by the Department of Education violates the Government’s policy that public education lands are not to be sold to private schools.
Latest News:Keneally government fails overcrowded public schools
22 August 2010
Public high schools like Killara and Arthur Phillip in Parramatta are bursting at the seams but the Keneally government has no building program to provide more capacity and no plan to help surrounding public schools take some of the burden, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. NSW govt fails to manage asbestos risk in schools
03 August 2010
The Keneally government's Asbestos Register in NSW public schools failed to stop 94 releases of the dangerous fibre since 2007, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Evangelists allowed to establish beachhead in a public school
14 July 2010
Education Minister Verity Firth has allowed aggressively evangelising churches to establish a beachhead in a public high school, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Keneally govt cuts corners on student health
09 June 2010
The NSW government is leaving in place 96 percent of the 51,000 unflued gas heaters in public school classrooms in NSW, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Rees govt drives public school to junk food outlets
29 November 2009
Greens NSW MP John Kaye accused the Rees government of under-funding public schools and forcing them to engage in sponsorship and advertising that compromised their core values. Firth should ensure that public school ethics pilot flies
25 November 2009
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth should give a guarantee that the introduction of ethics classes is not just a stalling tactic to take the heat off until the next election, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Firth misleads school communities on land sell-off
15 July 2009
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth is deliberately hiding her government’s Mini-Budget commitment to sell off $239 million of public school lands over the next three years, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Public schools ripped off by centralised purchasing policy
22 June 2009
Education Minister Verity Firth's centralised school purchasing system is damaging public schools and small businesses, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Omission is admission: league table website will damage schools
14 June 2009
The nation's education ministers' omission of the 'do no damage' principle from their data publishing protocols is an admission that their website will inevitably lead to the humiliation of many schools, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Hurlstone kids pressured to abandon walkathon
09 June 2009
The Department of Education has banned a walkathon organised by students opposed to selling land at Hurlstone Agricultural High School, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Document Actions |
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Over the last decade, John Kaye and other Greens members of the NSW Upper House have worked hard to make public education a national priority. They have supported teachers’ salary claims, opposed private school funding rorts and the private school for profit rip-off, worked for more ESL teachers and resources for children with special needs, and made equity funding a priority. They campaigned for more funding for TAFE and fairer treatment of part-time casual teachers.
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