“The Gillard Government is investing $970 million to help provide every Australian four-year-old with 15 hours of preschool a week for 40 weeks a year, delivered by a university-trained teacher, by 2013,” Mr Garrett said.
“Nationally, the reports confirm that more Australian children than ever before are accessing preschool or kindergarten, with four in five children enrolled last year and attending for an average of more than 14 hours a week. More than a third of children are already enrolled for 15 hours a week just two years into the five-year rollout of the universal access commitment.”
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This is how the media covered it:
State told to justify plan for preschool "The federal Education Minister, Peter Garrett, has called on the NSW government to explain how it intends to get more children into preschool, warning the imposition of fees next year may make its task even harder." Read more: Sydney Morning Herald
Education in the Herald
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