The department indicated during the meeting that the norms and standards funding would amount to R2.5bn. Schools use the funding to order textbooks and stationery and pay for maintenance and utilities.
“More bad news followed as schools’ budgets were cut further during the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 financial years and when schools received their paper budgets in November 2022 for the 2023/2024 financial year it again showed a decrease from previous years.” “Since 2020, schools in the province have been struggling to survive the budget cuts and the prospect of another budget reduction for 2023/2024 placed enormous financial pressure on schools.”“Repeated correspondence to the department went unanswered and when the 2023/2024 paper budgets were released in November 2022, the LRC indicated it would pursue legal action against the department to challenge the cuts.
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