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- Friday 5 August 2016
Students at Phoenix P-12 Community College are a step closer to having the facilities they deserve thanks to the Andrews Labor Government’s $10 million investment in the school.
Premier Daniel Andrews today joined Member for Buninyong Geoff Howard and members of the Phoenix P-12 school community in Ballarat to inspect plans for the project.
Expected to open in late 2017, the three new buildings will be home to technology labs, performing arts spaces and a special ‘village’ for Year 5 and 6 students that will include an amphitheatre.
The project was funded in the Victorian Budget 2015/16 and is being designed by Y2 Architecture.
The Labor Government is building the Education State in Ballarat so every local student gets the opportunity for a great education and every community has access to a great school.
It invested a record $1.8 billion to build new schools and upgrade classrooms in the past two State Budgets, including upgrades and rebuilds for Ballarat Secondary, Delacombe Primary, Mount Clear Secondary, Daylesford Secondary, Bacchus Marsh College and Beaufort Secondary. Ballarat will also get its own Tech School.
This year’s Budget also sees 38 regional schools sharing in $151 million of upgrade works.
Quotes attributable to Premier Daniel Andrews
“Kids can’t get a first rate education in a second rate classroom and that’s why we are giving the students and teachers the facilities they need at Phoenix P-12.”
“Phoenix P-12 is a fantastic local school and with new technology labs and performing arts spaces, this school is going to go from strength to strength.”
Quotes attributable to Member for Buninyong Geoff Howard
“The Labor Government promised to deliver the needed upgrades at Phoenix P-12 and we’re doing just that.”
“With new modern state of the art technology labs and performing arts spaces to boot, this school will continue to give local kids the education they need to grow and prosper.”