The Queensland Government announces the state's 465 community kindergartens will be open and free next term.
Queensland's 465 community kindergartens will be open and free next term, the State Government has announced.
"We're going to put in $17 million to enable the community kindergartens to continue to be be free up until June, so that's for the second term," Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said. "There's about 22,000 children that are in kindergarten programs and there's about 465 [centres] throughout Queensland. "I know that this will be a lot of added relief to a lot of parents out there that have been speaking to both [Education] Minister Grace [Grace] and myself about what's going to happen to community kindergartens," Ms Palaszczuk said."I know the community kindergarten sector had been asking for this."At the press conference where she made the announcement, the Premier was also asked about when schools would reopen.
However she did suggest people without internet access would be able to get hard copies of the curriculum and there were discussions underway with television networks."We have unfortunately 12 people who are in ICU and we've carried out over 72,000 tests," Ms Palaszczuk said.
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