A Tarneit school community that has been struggling after a college was left half-built could receive $10 million to finish the job.
Deputy state Opposition Leader James Merlino said Tarneit P-9 College would receive the money if Labor was elected in November.
“Only Labor will replace portable classrooms and learning spaces with new permanent ones at Tarneit P-9 College,” Mr Merlino said.
“Our kids can’t get a first-rate education in a second-rate classroom.”
Labor’s candidate for Tarneit, Telmo Languiller, said the school had been left in the lurch by the Coalition.
“Tarneit P-9 was abandoned by the Liberals halfway through building and the school doesn’t have the funds to finish the job,” Mr Languiller said. “Tarneit P-9 is a proud and caring local school and deserves funding to help it grow and improve its teaching facilities.”
Western Metropolitan Liberal MP Andrew Elsbury said Labor and its current Tarneit MP, Tim Pallas, couldn’t be trusted.
“By Mr Pallas’s own admission, Labor neglected to invest in existing schools in key growth areas across metropolitan and regional Victoria, including right here in the west,” Mr Elsbury said.
“Instead of talking about it, the Napthine government is getting on with the job, delivering Tarneit P-9 and five other schools in the Wyndham region, as well as
tackling Labor’s $420 million school maintenance backlog.
Tarneit P-9 students have spent the past year working in portable classrooms after the state government failed to provide funding for more permanent buildings.
As reported by Star Weekly, Labor has also promised $7 million to complete the third stage of Werribee Secondary College’s redevelopment.
