{"id":5483,"date":"2020-03-19T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2020-03-19T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:16:16","slug":"scott-morrison-threatens-funding-for-independent-and-catholic-schools-over-closures-amid-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/scott-morrison-threatens-funding-for-independent-and-catholic-schools-over-closures-amid-coronavirus-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Morrison threatens funding for independent and Catholic schools over closures amid coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-147u2d8\">Scott Morrison has used the threat of withdrawing independent and Catholic schools\u2019 recurrent funding to enlist their support in keeping non-government schools open during the Covid-19 crisis. After Morrison\u2019s discussions with both sectors on Wednesday, the Association of Independent Schools NSW has written to its members backing his position to keep schools open and noting the prime minister had warned \u201cthere were certain expectations attached to the recurrent funding provided by the Australian Government to Catholic and independent schools\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/australian-government-must-help-health-workers-if-coronavirus-shuts-schools-labor-says\">Scott Morrison threatens funding for independent and Catholic schools over closures amid coronavirus crisis <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-147u2d8\">Glayds Berejiklian, rebuked independent schools which have chosen to shut down. \u201cWe would prefer that everybody is absolutely on the same page when it comes to all the stakeholders in education,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is no rationale for closing down schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry Gladys, this is patently false. The rationale for NOT closing down schools is contrived using distorted interpretation of the evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison has used the threat of withdrawing independent and Catholic schools\u2019 recurrent funding to enlist their support in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}