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Including operating expenses, capital projects and transfer payments, the PACT government is requesting total expenditure appropriations of $384 million for the Ministry of Education over the next two years.
The PACT government lauded its actions on education as part of its ‘100 Day Report’ on the administration’s first 3 months in power, including laptops, inspection ratings and scholarship funding.
In this episode of EdBeat, we welcome Feed our Future’s Stacey VanDevelde to talk about the PACT government’s plans to provide free meals to all public school students.
It appears that the PACT does not plan to take education in a dramatically different direction than the Progressives. However, the PACT SPS does propose many additional — and ambitious — programmes not contained in the Progressives Manifesto.
“For too long this has been overlooked. Poor health and malnutrition have to be considered and incorporated into the efforts to improve our educational system.”
The PACT government plans to increase spending on public education significantly over the next 3 years on new initiatives, expanded programmes and capital projects.
Juliana O’Connor-Connolly has been named Minister of Education for Premier Wayne Panton’s PACT government, following 4 years in the position with the former Progressives-led government.