Save Tharwa School

MEDIA RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THARWA COMMUNITY GOES TO TOWN
On Monday nearly 50 members of the Tharwa Community attended afternoon tea with the Chief Minister Jon Stanhope. “This is part of a dedicated community effort to save the Tharwa School from possible closure in 2006” said Karim Haddad, Chair of the Tharwa School Board. This […]

THE wrath of parents may be the least of ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope’s concerns after the announcement the nation’s chief yowie hunter may fight him at the next election. Tim the Yowie Man has issued a challenge to Mr Stanhope to reverse a string of Budget cuts announced on June 6 or face him […]

From ABC news
The ACT Government has been accused of fudging the figures used to justify school closures.
The Liberal’s education spokeswoman, Vicki Dunne, says the Minister, Andrew Barr, was caught out at a public meeting last night.
Ms Dunne says he conceded the average student cost for some schools included special education units, which cost more to […]

Response to the recent ACT Budget and the Toward 2020 announcement
The Canberra Preschool Society acknowledges the innovation that has been made with respect to Preschool education in the ACT during the term of this Government. However, we are shocked at the proposed number of closures and the timing of the first of these (the […]

Please sign our online petition. Write your name and suburb in the comment area and an optional message.

ACT Greens MLA Deb Foskey will introduce a Bill to the Legislative Assembly in August which would put the government’s school closure program on hold until the end of 2007, and require a vote of the Assembly on every closure thereafter.
“This Government doesn’t know how to work with parents, teachers, kids or community groups. This […]