‘A game-changer’: NSW to introduce an extra year of education | JordsBaker
NSW will introduce an extra year of education in the biggest reform of schooling in a generation, offering five days per week of pre-kindergarten to every four-year-old by 2030 in a budget pledge worth $5.8 billion over 10 years.
A pilot would begin next year. At first, families would have to pay, but eventually it would be free.There are around 100,000 children in each year cohort in NSW. “We’re going to take a little bit of time to develop how it works, and we want to work closely with the sector,” said Ms Mitchell. The extra pre-school year will also help identify health and development issues that might have made learning difficult for students when they began school, said Mitchell, for whom this policy is the culmination of years of work in the early childhood and education portfolios.
“We know that children who start behind often stay behind and we know that learning starts at birth, so extending the universal education system to include the early years makes perfect sense,” she said. Mitchell said the reform was a culmination of years of work. “What will happen in this budget is really the culmination of having good women in parliament at the right time in the right portfolios supported by good men who see the benefit of this,” she said.
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