The State Government says tomorrow’s budget will provide the funds to deliver on its pre-election promise to build a second high school in the city.
Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said today the 2014-15 budget would allocate $85 million over five years to build the school on the current site of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
He said the school, with room for 1000 students, would have a special focus on health and science to “nurture the health researchers of the next generation”.
“The city high school will be opened for Term 1, 2019, and will be the beginning of the transformation of the old RAH site,” he said.
“There was a clear message from the consultation process that using the old RAH site for education was a popular option.”
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The funding is $64 million over four years, plus another $21 million in 2018-19.
Opposition education spokesman David Pisoni said Labor’s promise was tenuous, given its failure to honour a promise to expand the Adelaide High School to cater for an extra 250 students by 2013.
“Labor knows that the RAH site is not the preferred site of the parents of the electorate of Adelaide – the Liberals won the seat of Adelaide with our promise to build a second campus at Adelaide High School,” he said.
Also today, Education Minister Jennifer Rankine announced that the budget would include $14.2 million over four years to ensure school counsellors would be available to every public school student by 2015-16.
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