NSW Coalition pledges to start building 500 new preschools by end of the year
by Tamsin Rose from World news | The Guardian on (#69GF2)
Perrottet government to bring forward $1bn in construction work and legislate right to universal pre-kindergarten if re-elected
Five hundred new preschools will be built throughout New South Wales within the next four years under an election pledge by the Coalition to bring forward $1bn in construction work and have shovels in the ground by the end of the year.
The government will on Tuesday promise to bring forward its $5.8bn universal pre-kindergarten plan to give every child in the state access to a year of free play-based" learning the year before school by 2030. Victoria made a similar pledge in a joint announcement last year.
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