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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Sarah Lansdown

Govt promised $24.9m for education reforms, but only $1.7m is new money

The majority of funding for the ACT's new literacy and numeracy initiatives is coming from redirected resources within the Education Directorate.

Budget documents show only $1.7 million for the Strong Foundations policy is new funding, with the majority of the promised $24.9 million spend over four years coming from existing sections of the directorate.

It includes redirecting the teaching and learning team to support professional learning for teachers and focusing the student-centred improvement framework to the literacy and numeracy reforms.

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