Community school says savings figures flawed
From ABC News
The ACT Government is under renewed pressure to release the figures it is using to justify school closures.
Almost 40 schools in the ACT are listed to shut their doors over the next three years as part of cost-cutting measures.
But the board of the Mount Rogers Community School says it has carried out its own analysis and the Government’s suggested savings are wrong.
Board chair Peter Hicks says the government thinks it can save $500,000 a year by closing Mount Rogers, but really it is much less than that.
“Once you put our students into schools of larger enrolments and you take what are the current costs per students, the difference between the two figures - between our current costs per students and the cost per student - where they would go, the amount that’s going to be saved is only somewhere around $230,000,” Mr Hicks said.