Ted inspects the state of things at Caulfield Junior College

Ted Baillieu visited Caulfield Junior College this morning to see for himself the state of disrepair in our schools.

Addressing Victoria’s massive school maintenance backlog will be a top priority under a $250 million Liberal Government plan.

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show that Caulfield Junior College needs $266,852 worth of maintenance work to bring it up to scratch.

This money will be made available from the school rescue fund if we are elected next month.  Altogether Caulfield Schools need over $2m worth of urgent maintenance.

Here is the full list of Caufield’s school maintenance backlog to be fixed by a Baillieu government:

• Caulfield Junior College  $266,852
• Caulfield Park Community School $163,305
• Caulfield Primary Schoo  $743,120
• Caulfield South Primary School  $377,413
• Glen Eira College $479,854
• Ripponlea Primary School  $97,084
• St Kilda Primary School  $158,452

Eliminating Labor’s backlog would relieve parents who have been forced to pay Labor’s increasing ‘voluntary’ fees.

A recent Parliament Accounts and Estimates Committee report estimated a 43% increase in these so-called voluntary school funding contributions, a direct result of Labor’s maintenance blowout. 

Open and accountable funding of the maintenance backlog is intrinsic to the Liberal education policy, and will include an up-to-date maintenance database, with all results made public.

In response to the blowout, Labor has pledged a mere additional $50 million over the next five-six years on school maintenance woes, a figure which will not even make a dent in the backlog of issues facing our schools.

Caulfield’s teachers, parents and children, deserve the basic right and peace of mind of learning in safe, comfortable environments, and the right to take pride in their schools. Our community deserves better.

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