WC education MEC Debbie Schäfer said Sadtu was opposing departmental plans to open more collaboration schools with private-sector partners.
“Each learner that enters the province costs the department around R15,500 for a primary school learner and R18,700 for a high school learner, excluding infrastructure costs. The cost over the last five years is more than R1.84bn,” she said.
The R1.3bn special-needs education budget was also taking strain, “as families are literally moving across the country to find a place for their children in our schools”. The MEC said there had been at least 17 school stabbings so far this year, many of them linked to gang violence.
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