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School funding
BUDGET 2024: Why is the money for public schools still missing?
This is first in a series of posts on the 2024 Budget. Today: school funding by Curtin University’s …
School choice: why are more parents picking private over public?
More students than ever before are being enrolled in Australia’s private schools, according to new data on school choice from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Most states and territories have experienced a similar trend. Even before current increases Australia had among the highest proportion of kids enrolled at non government schools in the OECD. Why …
School funding: Is this Australia’s most important moment for reform?
School funding policy burst back onto the national agenda last Tuesday. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare announced a ‘statement of intent’ had been signed with Western Australia to fully fund the state’s public schools by 2026. This language is important. A statement of intent is not a signed, five-year, bilateral funding agreement. There is still …
Timid thinking no longer cuts it. Change is needed now
Their buildings are substandard— cheap and poorly ventilated. Their classrooms are under resourced and uninviting. Their gardens are …
Scary school stories: from zombie data to systems at war
Long-standing challenges in education confront the new Labor government: the teacher shortage; teacher pay and conditions; the equitable …
How the brilliant democracy sausage reveals the secrets of school funding
WATCH: There’s a snag in school funding. New Education Minister Jason Clare is like any other student on their first day of school – there is a lot to learn about the problems facing the education system in Australia. But, in this case, Mr Clare can discover the answers by revisiting one of the highlights …
Everything you never knew you wanted to know about school funding
Book review: Waiting For Gonski: How Australia Failed its Schools, by Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor With the …
The government knows how to help teachers. And it’s not more reform.
A decade after LSLD was implemented, it became evident there were no improved educational outcomes across the State’s schools. …
Stop all government funding for private schools. (Why and how we could do it)
Along with many fellow Australians I was momentarily heartened last year by the United Kingdom’s Labour party announcing that it would scrap elitist private schools in the UK (which are confusingly called “public schools”) if it won the UK election. Had it happened, those UK private schools would have been nationalised, their charitable status removed …
Q:Which major party will fully fund public schools? A:None. Here’s what’s happening
You would be forgiven for thinking that policy related to schooling is not a major issue in Australia. …