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Lilydale High School parents forced to pay more
Lilydale High School parents will be forced to pay an annual levy between $150 and $300 per year because of Federal Labor’s bungling of their computers in schools policy.Prior to the last election, Kevin Rudd promised to put a computer on the desk of every secondary school student in years 9-12, but made no allowance for the costs of re-wiring, power, software, security, installation and teacher training and all the things needed to make the computers actually work.After nearly 12 months of indecision, denial and death by dialogue with the Brumby Labor Government, it has now been revealed that Lilydale High School parents must pay a levy of between $150 and $300 so the school can actually use the computers.Many concerned parents of Lilydale High School have been in contact with both Tony Smith MP, the Federal Member for Casey and Christine ... more
Apply now for the Volunteer Grants Programme 2008
The Federal Member for Casey, Tony Smith, today encouraged the region’s volunteer groups to apply for small equipment grants under the Volunteer Grants Programme. Mr Smith said the grants were an extension of the former Coalition government’s successful Volunteer Small Equipment Grants programme. “These grants were established to help ... more
National literacy and numeracy tests still show too many students falling behind
The results of this year’s long-awaited national literacy and numeracy tests reveal that too many students are still not meeting minimum standards in key areas.This year’s first national tests were introduced by the former Coalition Government to replace the range of individual state and territory based tests which were previously used ... more
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