❓ The Minister for Education provides an update on the 'Getting it Right' policy, which aims to improve literacy and numeracy in schools by deploying additional specialist teachers. The initiative is framed as a key priority of the new government, addressing a perceived neglect by the previous administration.
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Last year the minister continued the implementation of the Gallop Labor Government’s reform agenda and committed to putting additional literacy and numeracy teachers in our schools. Can the minister advise the House of the up-to-date position on that? Mr CARPENTER
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I thank the member for this question and for his commitment to education in his electorate. Last year, in the run-up to the state election, the Government gave a commitment that it would address the issues of literacy and numeracy, which had been left largely unaddressed by the previous Government. We were to address that in our specific policy called Getting it Right, which would put 200 extra literacy and numeracy experts into state schools over four years and address the situation of a large number of our students not meeting the required standards of literacy and numeracy. One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for this question and for his commitment to education in his electorate. Last year, in the run-up to the state election, the Government gave a commitment that it would address the issues of literacy and numeracy, which had been left largely unaddressed by the previous Government. We were to address that in our specific policy called Getting it Right, which would put 200 extra literacy and numeracy experts into state schools over four years and address the situation of a large number of our students not meeting the required standards of literacy and numeracy. One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
I thank the member for this question and for his commitment to education in his electorate. Last year, in the run-up to the state election, the Government gave a commitment that it would address the issues of literacy and numeracy, which had been left largely unaddressed by the previous Government. We were to address that in our specific policy called Getting it Right, which would put 200 extra literacy and numeracy experts into state schools over four years and address the situation of a large number of our students not meeting the required standards of literacy and numeracy. One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
Last year, in the run-up to the state election, the Government gave a commitment that it would address the issues of literacy and numeracy, which had been left largely unaddressed by the previous Government. We were to address that in our specific policy called Getting it Right, which would put 200 extra literacy and numeracy experts into state schools over four years and address the situation of a large number of our students not meeting the required standards of literacy and numeracy. One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for this question and for his commitment to education in his electorate. Last year, in the run-up to the state election, the Government gave a commitment that it would address the issues of literacy and numeracy, which had been left largely unaddressed by the previous Government. We were to address that in our specific policy called Getting it Right, which would put 200 extra literacy and numeracy experts into state schools over four years and address the situation of a large number of our students not meeting the required standards of literacy and numeracy. One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
I thank the member for this question and for his commitment to education in his electorate. Last year, in the run-up to the state election, the Government gave a commitment that it would address the issues of literacy and numeracy, which had been left largely unaddressed by the previous Government. We were to address that in our specific policy called Getting it Right, which would put 200 extra literacy and numeracy experts into state schools over four years and address the situation of a large number of our students not meeting the required standards of literacy and numeracy. One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
Last year, in the run-up to the state election, the Government gave a commitment that it would address the issues of literacy and numeracy, which had been left largely unaddressed by the previous Government. We were to address that in our specific policy called Getting it Right, which would put 200 extra literacy and numeracy experts into state schools over four years and address the situation of a large number of our students not meeting the required standards of literacy and numeracy. One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
One of the most important things that Governments can do is provide the foundations for a quality of life through good education and good educational outcomes. Last year in the budget we committed funding to provide 50 extra FTEs in this calendar year and 50 each year as we proceed. This morning I attended a three-day professional development seminar for the first group of those teachers - 93, in fact - of literacy and numeracy experts. I call them the “Three Rs Army”. They will wage war on illiteracy and innumeracy in our schools and provide our children with the best possible education they can get, irrespective of their social circumstances, their cultural backgrounds or the resources available to their families. We now have the first contingent of literacy and numeracy experts going to government schools, representing areas as far afield as Wyndham in the north and Albany in the south. Many country centres will obviously be the beneficiaries of this initiative because they are the areas often identified as having significant numbers of children who do not reach literacy and numeracy benchmarks. I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
I do not believe that there is any member in the Parliament, either in the Chamber or in the gallery, who would not applaud this move, regardless of where they are in the political spectrum. It is one of the best things I hope to be able to do as an education minister. If Governments can provide young people in Australia with a sound education, it will provide them with a lifetime gift, which will allow them to optimise their potential to become fully productive citizens and to become economically and socially viable. As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
As a new Government, we could not afford to allow the situation to continue in which a large percentage of young people were left to drift through the school system without being able to attain the required levels of literacy and numeracy. In the modern society and modern economy in which we live, those people who exit the school system with insufficient literacy and numeracy standards are destined for a very difficult time. All members of Parliament know the social ramifications that flow from that. I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
I am therefore very pleased to have been involved in the development of the policy. I am grateful to the best Treasurer that the State has ever had for providing the funding for it last year, for the Premier’s support of this move and for the support of members on both sides of the House who will get those extra literacy and numeracy experts in their schools. Eventually there will be about 170 experts in schools and about 30 in district offices all over the State. I am grateful for the support that I have had from all members of the House for this initiative.
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