4-day week for teachers: PV media comment
The Age reported today on a suite of reforms to teachers’ working conditions, developed by academics at Monash University and supported by the Australian Education Union. The reforms were developed after interviews with 8,000 teachers, principals and support staff. According to the article: The researchers found more funding for schools, better pay for educators, smaller […]
Tell the pollies: full funding for public schools now!
Parents have a brief opportunity to give the Senate their views on school funding. The Senate is holding a Committee Inquiry on the provisions of the Better and Fairer Schools (Funding and Reform) Bill 2024. We have reported previously on the current funding stand-off between the Federal and most State Governments. You can catch up on […]
Funding “big lie” – SOS
Save Our Schools (SOS) has just released a statement headed, “Jason Clare’s Big Lie on Public School Funding”. The statement concerns the use of “accounting tricks” to misrepresent how much the states are contributing as part of their share of funding public schools. The SOS statement begins: The Federal Education Minister, Jason Clare, has adopted […]
Tasmania signs school funding deal
The Guardian reported last week that that Tasmania has signed a new school funding agreement with the Federal Government, with the Federal government lifting its funding commitment by 2.5% to 22.5% of the schooling resource standard (SRS) and Tasmania funding the remaining 77.5%. The Australian Education Union (AEU) has dismissed the agreement as a “cloak-and-dagger […]
$85m pool at private school
The Sunday Age reported yesterday on further evidence of the over-funding of private schools. According to the article by journalist Noel Towell, “The federal education minister is demanding answers about the public funding of an exclusive Melbourne private school after The Age revealed the school was spending $85 million on a new sports complex.” The […]
Funding stand-off: public schools ‘could lose $30bn’
The current stand-off on school funding between the Federal and state governments could be catastrophic for public schools if agreement is not reached by the 30 September deadline, according to economist Trevor Cobbold from Save Our Schools (SOS). SOS has just published a media release outlining the huge potential losses for public schools. According to […]
