Victoria pitches itself as the 'education state'. Yet our public schools are chronically underfunded - with facilities crumbling, class sizes ballooning and teachers at breaking point dealing with ever increasing workloads. Victorian Socialists will fight to end the crisis in our public school system, including: - hiring 12,000 additional teachers and support staff across Victoria’s 1,600 public schools, boosting salaries and cutting class sizes - immediately ending state funding to high fee private schools, and redirecting these funds to the public system - implementing Trevor Cobbold's 'Gonski-plus' model as a minimum for spending on public schools - providing free, nutritious lunches to all government primary school students - ending all 'voluntary' parent contributions for things like uniforms, devices, camps to ensure that no child is left disadvantaged and no family is humiliated for lack of money.
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