{"id":8671,"date":"2016-10-25T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/dandenong-schools-to-be-upgraded\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T09:48:24","slug":"dandenong-schools-to-be-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/dandenong-schools-to-be-upgraded\/","title":{"rendered":"DANDENONG SCHOOLS TO BE UPGRADED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students at Dandenong North Primary School will soon have better facilities, thanks to a boost of more than $40 million for school maintenance funding.<\/p>\n

Gabrielle Williams MP today announced Dandenong North Primary School will be one of 436 schools across Victoria that will share in $41.6 million to upgrade old buildings under the Andrews Labor Government\u2019s Planned Maintenance Program.<\/p>\n

Dandenong North Primary School will receive $148,000 under the program, with planning now under way.<\/p>\n

The Labor Government supports schools through the Planned Maintenance Program so that they can refurbish, demolish, or replace buildings that fall below minimum standards.<\/p>\n

Sixty-five schools shared in $10.8 million under the first round of funding earlier this year, which was provided to complement capital works projects funded at those schools in the Victorian Budget 2016\/17.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement means a total of 501 schools will share in a record investment of $52.4 million in school maintenance this year.<\/p>\n

Two other Dandenong schools were provided additional funding, with Dandenong Primary School allocated $13,000 and Dandenong South Primary School receiving $6,000.<\/p>\n

A list of schools to receive upgrades under round two of the Planned Maintenance Program is available at www.schoolbuildings.vic.gov.au\/Pages\/Schools\/Planned-Maintenance-Funding.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Andrews Labor Government is building the Education State so that every Victorian student gets the opportunity for a great education and every community has access to a great school.<\/p>\n

There are now 42 new government schools and hundreds of school upgrades in the construction pipeline following the Government\u2019s record $1.8 billion investment in school infrastructure.<\/p>\n

This school building boom will create 4000 construction jobs and ensure all Victorian families have access to a great school no matter where they live.<\/p>\n

Quotes attributable to Member for Dandenong, Gabrielle Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Our local schools do an incredible job building the leaders of tomorrow, and maintaining quality educational facilities that keep pace with contemporary programs is an important part of that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cDandenong North Primary School is a great local school that prides itself on excellence. This funding boost will mean its facilities can be upgraded to match the high quality teaching and learning environment the school provides.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Quotes attributable to Minister for Education James Merlino<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis funding boost will allow hundreds more Victorian schools to replace or upgrade buildings on poor condition so that our teachers and students have the first-rate facilities they deserve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students at Dandenong North Primary School will soon have better facilities, thanks to a boost of more than $40 million for school maintenance funding. Gabrielle Williams MP today announced Dandenong North Primary School will be one of 436 schools across Victoria that will share in $41.6 million to upgrade old buildings under the Andrews Labor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9218,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions\/9218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}