Rural and regional communities right around Tasmania are threatened with the closure of their extended 7-12 high schools under a future Labor-Green minority Government.
In today's Mercury "Tasweekend" magazine, Labor's education spokeswoman Michelle O'Byrne has confirmed that Labor will "put a stop to Rockliff's reforms", and worse, signalled that schools already extended face being unwound.
Ms O'Byrne singles out communities including Cressy and New Norfolk as extended high schools which Labor will unwind.
But under Ms O'Byrne's new "commuting distance" criteria, extended high schools including Scottsdale, Smithton and Huonville also face the the axe under Labor and the Greens.
Further Ms O'Byrne threatens schools like Ulverstone, set to extend in 2017.
Our Plan to extend high schools to year 12 is already working - in extended high schools there has been a 57 percent increase in enrolments since 2014, and the retention rate has risen almost five percentage points from the low point under Labor and the Greens.
This is a long-term Plan which we developed prior to the last election, and which we have always said will take a decade to implement fully.
Even the Australian Education Union now support our Plan, and it's shameful that Labor wants to unwind it all.
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