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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-05-29" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <endPage num="262" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000365">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Building Better Schools Program</name>
      <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000366">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Building Better Schools Program</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4867" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.T. NGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2018-05-29">
            <name>Building Better Schools Program</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000367">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4867">the Hon. T.T. NGO </by>(3 May 2018).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Treasurer</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2018-05-29">
            <name>Building Better Schools Program</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000368">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer):</by>  The Minister for Education has been advised of the following: </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000369">
          <inserted>The decision to move year 7 into high school does not change the provisions of the <term>Education Act 1972</term> (the Act) in regard to the closure or amalgamation of government schools. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000370">
          <inserted>Part 2A of the Act specifies that a government school can only be closed or amalgamated in one of two ways:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000371">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;A school community closure process where parents vote to close a school; or</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000372">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;A decision by the Minister for Education after giving due consideration to the report and recommendations of a committee that has conducted a review. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201805299e35ea995f2e4083a0000373" />
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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