NSW education minister, Sarah Mitchell, said the Coalition would ensure it continued to oversee its commitment to public school funding.
On Monday he said it was an “unacceptable inequity” that government schools only received 95% of their student resource standard – the needs-based funding benchmark created in the Gonski reforms. Prior to the election, Labor’s former education spokesperson Tanya Plibersek said an Albanese government would increase funding for state schools by ensuring they were on a “pathway” to full funding, or 100% of the SRS. But the national teacher’s union criticised the pledge forThe Victorian teacher’s union urged both the state government and commonwealth to ensure public schools reached at least 100% of their SRS as soon as possible.
Stop giving private schools public money for a start.
Funding is critical to level the playing field, but also the structure of the teaching day needs to be altered so that all students can thrive.
That we have got to this point after Howard threw money at private schools. What a mess. They should pull the money back from the private schools and use it on the funding gap. education auspol.