The union and its allies, he noted, pushed back
against about a dozen pro-charter
school proposals that state Senate Republicans made a
concerted effort to include in the final budget bill.
But the communities, particularly Bourke, are making a
concerted effort to address the underlying issues that send
schools of Aboriginal children to detention centres, where their future is then burdened so greatly that they will most likely, by the weight of the statistics
against them, end up in jail as adults.