School funding

School choice: why are more parents picking private over public?

By Helen Proctor in conversation with EduResearch Matters

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?

By Elisa Di Gregorio, Matthew P. Sinclair and Jane Kenway

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

By Jane Kenway

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

By Don Carter and Jane Hunter

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

By Naomi Barnes

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

By Sally Larsen

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.

By Mihajla Gavin, Meghan Stacey, Rachel Wilson, Susan McGrath-Champ

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)

By David Zyngier

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

By Deb Hayes

You would be forgiven for thinking that policy related to schooling is not a major issue in Australia.

Words matter: how the latest school funding report (Gonski 2.0) gets it so wrong

By Melitta Hogarth

Much has been said about David Gonski’s second review of school funding in Australia. It is a document