"The Montello Primary School community feel "disrespected and unheard" following school funding announced in the state budget.
While the government committed a further $2.5 million, taking the overall state funding to $9.6 million, Ms Forrest said it "always was underfunded and inadequate".
You can read the rest of my comments relating to the funding allocation to Montello Primary School announced in the State Budget, and as reported in the Advocate newspaper at the link below:
Alternatively, my full budget reply speech is available here:
https://ruthforrest.com.au/18-parliament/1239-2024-25-budget-reply-speech
The section of the speech relating to Montello Primary School is here:
