From Green Left Weekly, September 27, 2006.

The Victorian Labor government, crying poor, wants to use the controversial private-public partnerships (PPP) model to remedy the decaying state of its public schools. This is a system in which a government service, or private business venture, is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private companies.

The Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU) decided at its July 29 state council meeting to support the PPP-funding model, with safeguards, a position that AEU state president MARY BLUETT presents below. Other teacher members, such as AEU state councillor MARY MERKENICH, disagree with this strategy, arguing that a PPP system to finance state schools is the beginning of their privatisation.

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Posted by pichu at September 27, 2006 10:40 AM