On Friday 1 May, the Flynn P&C and the John Flynn Community Group gave evidence to the Assembly Inquiry into school closures. Transcripts are now available.
Submissions to the Inquiry into ACT school closures are now available online at:
The Inquiry website. In total there were 76 submission, which is rumoured to be a very high number for an Assembly Inquiry.
Next meeting for Flynn Neighbourhood Watch is: 7:30pm Wednesday 11 March 2009 at the Ginninderra Labor Club.
People affected or concerned by the closure of Flynn Primary School and community centre now have a brief opportunity to submit a letter to the new Inquiry into ACT school closures.
The ACT Government is crying ‘we’re too poor’ to re-open Flynn Primary School at the very same time that it is dishing out $230 million of Federal money for ACT schools and promising more ACT money through upcoming appropriations.
The Flynn Primary School Parents and Citizens Association today cautiously welcomed news of an Inquiry into school closures, stressing that the Inquiry needs to fully examine the information and processes that led to decisions to close schools.
The ACT Legislative Assembly will today announce an inquiry into the Government’s decision to close 23 schools across Canberra. The Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education, Training and Youth Affairs will review the Government’s controversial Towards 2020 policy that prompted the mass closures in the 2006-07 budget.
According to an article on the Save our Schools website, there is strong evidence that the results from student literacy and numeracy testing, were used in the 2006 school closures.
News from the GHD round of consultation over schools sites. Flynn is not included here, but there’sa handy list of links to the Canberra Times’ version of events.
The future of Flynn Primary school building and grounds would be under threat if the recommendations of the Purdon report were implemented.