The Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, today announced $24 million in funding for new intensive literacy and numeracy projects for Indigenous students.

This funding will be used to implement 15 new projects over the next two years. The projects, which will get underway in both government and non-government schools, will help halve the gap in reading, writing and numeracy achievement for Indigenous children by 2018.

More details about the projects can be found in the Minister's media release.

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