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School funding
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. …
Words matter: how the latest school funding report (Gonski 2.0) gets it so wrong
Much has been said about David Gonski’s second review of school funding in Australia. It is a document …
Why Simon Birmingham is wrong about school funding
Education ministers from all of Australia’s governments, state, territory and Commonwealth, met on Friday to begin negotiations over …
Turnbull’s $1.2 billion “additional funding” for schools is not additional at all, here’s why
The Turnbull Government budget announced an additional spend of $1.2 billion on schooling between 2018 and 2020. It …
Charter schools: an old, flawed idea and wrong for Australia
A new report proposes Australia adopt a US styled charter school, or UK type academies, approach as a solution to our falling scores on international tests. It even suggests Australia should consider for-profit schools. The report comes from the Centre for Independent Studies, a conservative pro-business pro-privatisation think tank. US charter schools and UK academies …
Urgent: take a closer look at the Abbott Government’s plans for school funding
Two months ago, four proposals for reforming government roles and responsibilities in schooling were leaked from the Abbott …