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  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Education System</name>
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          <heading>Education System</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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          <question date="2016-04-12">
            <name>Education System</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI (Unley)</by> (24 March 2015).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education and Child Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Higher Education and Skills</name>
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          <question date="2016-04-12">
            <name>Education System</name>
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        <text id="201604121ecd9e08fc7a40e780000972">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Member for Unley has been provided with extensive information (43 documents, over 500 pages) on this matter as a result of his Freedom of Information (FOI) application to the Department for Education and Child Development requesting:</inserted>
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            <inserted>Access to any documents (including memos, emails and any other correspondence) referring to South Australia considering, costing and/or moving Year 7 from primary schools to high schools. </inserted>
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          <inserted>I am advised that these documents refer to an estimated capital cost to move Year 7 students to secondary school of between $150 to $300 million, depending on the model of change. I am also advised that the documents refer to a recurrent annual cost in the order of $29 million, based on the figures provided in the documents.</inserted>
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