TWENTY-two Manning and Great Lakes schools have been included in a government list of 500 public and private schools in the most disadvantaged areas of the State, or in need of specialised literacy and numeracy funding.
They are among schools in NSW’s poorest areas that will share $716 million over four years to help boost their results, and a further $41 million over two years to specifically improve their literacy and numeracy scores.
Four regional schools – Forster and Wingham (public) and Manning District Adventist and Taree Christian Community (non-government) – will receive a financial boost from the new literacy and numeracy funding announced this week.
Schools regarded as low socio-economic status to receive funding in 2010 are:
* Chatham High
* Chatham Public
* Coopernook
* Elands
* Gloucester Public
* Harrington
* Moorland
* Nabiac
* Stratford
* Taree High
* Taree Public
* Taree West
* Tuncurry
* Wingham Brush
* Wingham Public
Two schools – Comboyne and Lansdowne Public - will receive funds in 2011 and one - Manning Gardens - in 2012, the final year of the newly announced program.
The new program is a joint Federal-State government National Partnerships initiative.
The Federal government used census data to determine the list of disadvantaged schools, while the State government creates its Priority Schools Program list based on parent data, not suburb data.
The NSW government can alter the list of included schools before the scheme is finetuned in October if
it can prove other schools are more disadvantaged.
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