Sydney schools sitting on up to $5000 in unspent money per student

Sydney public schools have been failing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of government funding, with some individual schools sitting on the equivalent of more than $4000 per student, newly released figures show.

At the end of 2018, $1.3 billion had been left unspent by public schools, including $665 million in government funding and $635 million of money raised by the community.Greens MP David Shoebridge, who obtained the school-by-school figures, said the backlog showed school control of budgets was not working, and the government's plans to address the problem - announced this week - did not go far enough.

On Thursday, it announced that from next year, schools failing to meet yet-to-be-determined targets would lose their autonomy, and the department would step in. The acting president of the Secondary Principals Council, Craig Petersen, said there were many reasons why schools did not spend their full allocation, such as a struggle to find teachers willing to work in some areas.. The initial budget management tools supplied by the department were cumbersome and made the job harder, and had been recently replaced with better ones, he said.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

Now which schools might those be? The private schools with their own baristas, or selective schools with a minute percentage of students from Australian backgrounds, or the schools whose kids keep cool in 40 degree heat by sitting with their bare feet in tote trays full of water?

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