Riley Street Infants School Parents' and Citizens' Association records relating to the history and campaign against closure of the Riley Street Infants School, 1987-1991

MLMSS 8343

fonds

1987-1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Posters

402435

0.65 metres of textual material (4 boxes)

The Riley Street Infants School began in 1874 in the Congregation Church Hall in Devonshire Street, before opening in Riley Street (Surry Hills) in 1884. It is thought that the school was the first in New South Wales to successfully implement the German Froebels Kindergarten system.

The Riley Street Infants School was closed at the end of 1989 despite strong resistance and campaigning by the Parents' and Citizens' Association.

Reference:
Compiled from the collection

BOX 1
Folder 1
Papers, correspondence, media releases, chronologies, mainly between the Riley Street Infants School Parents & Citizens and members of government, concerning the proposed closure of the Riley Street school, 1988-1989

Folder 2
Papers, correspondence, etc. including with government departments and the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), relating to Riley Street Infants School, Freedom of Information request, Milsons Point Public School 1989-1991

Folder 3
Papers, correspondence, posters, press releases, relating to Riley Street Infants School, Public Education Association (PEA), etc., 1988-1991

Folder 4
Papers and correspondence, including a copy of the School Rationalisation Review of Riley Street, 1988-1990

Folder 5
Papers, correspondence, stickers, relating to Castlecrag Infants' School, and Riley Street, 1989-1990

BOX 2
Folder 1
Papers, correspondence, media releases, transcripts, posters, etc. concerning the proposed closure of Riley Street Infants School, 1988-1989

Folder 2
Papers, correspondence, file notes, etc. mainly between the Public Education Association, Riley Street Infants School, and the Office of the Ombudsman, 1989

Folder 3
Papers and correspondence, concerning Balmoral Beach Infants School and Riley Street Infants School including transcript from Freedom of Information file, complaints and draft complaints, and request to disallow regulation re Freedom of Information, etc., 1989

Folder 4
Newspaper clippings, copies of articles, 115 year history of Riley Street Infants School, colour photographs of the school, 1988-1991

Folder 5
Papers, correspondence, and copies of newspaper clippings, 1990

BOX 3
Folder 1
Copies of newspaper articles concerning school closures, the education system, and the Riley Street Infants School, 1988-1990

Folder 2
Newspaper clippings and copies of articles concerning school closures, the education system, and the Riley Street Infants School, 1987-1991

Folder 3
Newspaper clippings and copies of articles concerning school closures, the education system, and the Riley Street Infants School, 1989-1990

BOX 4
Folders 1-5
Documents relating to and obtained under the Freedom of Information request concerning Riley Street Infants School, from the New South Wales Department of Education, ca. 1989

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