Govt. Concerns About SCN In Schools NO BAR for Funds to $CN School 11/24/09

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Rudd's concerns no bar to funds for school that uses Hubbard text

Anna Patty
November 24, 2009 - 12:08AM

THE PRIME MINISTER, Kevin Rudd, has expressed concern about the Church
of Scientology but will provide subsidies worth more than $1 million
to a Sydney school that promotes the teaching of the church's founder,
L.Ron Hubbard.

Mr Rudd said he shared some of the concerns of the independent senator
Nick Xenophon, who used parliamentary privilege last week to level
allegations of torture, perjury and financial coercion against the
church.

Newtown's Athena School is licensed by Applied Scholastics
International, which is strongly linked to Scientology. The school's
website says it teaches from the booklet The Way to Happiness, written
by Hubbard.

The Athena School will receive $751,519 in recurrent funding from the
Government for the 2009-10 funding period. It has also been allocated
$135,287 for new library, $114,713 for primary classroom
refurbishments and $50,000 for other refurbishments under the Rudd
Government's Building the Education Revolution program.

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