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    School funding is undermining equality and cohesion


    School funding is undermining equality and cohesion

    https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/school-funding-is-undermining-equality-and-cohesion/?utm_source=Pearls+%26+Irritations&utm_campaign=3572c5bbe3-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0c6b037ecb-3572c5bbe3-583168951

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    2. nath1234 on

      Currently the ALP is over funding private schools (even by this sabotaged SRS model that still gives out funding for private schools that have $40k+/year of fees!) and underfunding public schools until 2034.

      They are claiming that they are fully funding public schools and the education union ran a disinformation campaign on this during the election for them. By no stretch of the imagination is underfunding for the entire first term, and second and third and 4th and out to 2034 able to be described as “fully funding public education”.

      I could claim I climbed Everest by setting a 2034 date by which I will totally have done it, trust me bro.

      Meanwhile private schools are entirely at 100% or above their SRS funding level meaning that private school over funding is maintained and the priority but public schools get to do without for an entire school generation.. This is wrong. The overfunding needs to stop today and that money immediately given to public schools. Ideally a clawback of funding from schools that were over funded to give to the public schools that got screwed out of fair funding.. Oh and by 2034: public schools will STILL not be funded fairly because states are permitted to claim all sorts of dodgy deductions to avoid paying the agreed amount. The Greens raised this in parliament but the video I posted on here a while back was autoremoved, here is the speech: https://youtu.be/_piUsZep-sE

      Been 15 years since Gonski and ALP wants to push that out to 24 years.

    3. klaer_bear on

      Every politician should be forced to send their kids to public schools. Watch how quickly the standards improve if this was the case.

    4. sunnybob24 on

      Turnbull’s liberal government tried to fix it with a fair policy based on the Gonski report and it got rolled by the Catholic schools and their customers.

      There’s no point whining to the government. Only pressure on the Catholic schools and the parents of their students will allow change in this democracy.

      Good luck with that.

    5. No-Bison-5397 on

      Gonski was only a half measure anyway due to the “no losers” policy.

      But also it’s 15 years old. Cant wait for the kids who were promised gonski from birth not getting any of it.