New South Wales public schools are failing to spend $1.3 billion of funds accumulated from NSW and federal governments, and from fundraising by schools and parents.
New figures show that that each school has $600,000 of unspent money.
The NSW Teachers Federation and Greens MP David Shoebridge says principals are not receiving the right support to spend the money allocated to their schools, and they feel they are expected to be financial managers as well as educators.
He said, “When I talk with school communities, they are telling me that they are struggling to find $10,000 or $20,000 to fix leaking roofs or deliver a few electronic whiteboards, so it is unbelievable that there is over a billion dollars sitting unspent.”