House debates

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Questions without Notice

Education: School Principals

3:03 pm

Photo of Christopher PyneChristopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Education, and Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to her comment today in relation to the Principal Autonomy Report—commissioned by the previous government in early 2007—that has sat on her desk since December 2007 and which she now claims as her own. I quote from the report:

It is important principals have the support and the flexibility they need to respond to the needs of their students.

Will the minister now amend the guidelines for the Building the Education Revolution to give principals and local school communities the flexibility they want to respond to the needs of their students by building what they need and want rather than being forced to accept Julia Gillard memorial school halls that they neither need nor want.

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