Behind Brighton Primary’s grand heritage facade, pupils attend class in “crummy portables” next to a busy train line. Now, the fed-up school community is taking matters into its own hands for funding.
A grand heritage building faces the street, built from sturdy brick almost 150 years ago, Gothic windows flanking the arched entranceway.
Grants have ranged from $44 million for the new South Melbourne Primary to $200,000 each for minor works at St Kilda Park and Cheltenham primaries at the bottom end.“What I don’t understand is the tattslotto of funding decisions. There is no obvious pathway to securing capital investment in a school,” he said.
Campbell said Brighton Primary was inspired by the experience of Sandringham East Primary, which did the same thing and subsequently won $23.6 million in capital funding. Two students gave viewers a tour of a building with gaping cracks in the walls, a collapsing ceiling, rotted benchtops and foul-smelling toilets infested with black mould.
“We would love to see a clear formula based on school need, on assessments of school facilities,” Dalgleish said. The Department of Education said its ongoing responsibility was to balance the needs of more than 1570 government schools, taking a long-term view for capital works and prioritising funding for schools that are in poor condition or in areas of high population growth.
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