School funding agreements between the Federal Government and the governments of Victoria and South Australia were announced late last week. A joint media release from the Federal and Victorian governments gives the following details: As part of the agreement, the Commonwealth will provide an additional 5 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) to

The Better and Fairer Schools (Funding and Reform) Bill was passed by Federal Parliament last night. Education Minister Jason Clare’s media release points out that this will enable increased Federal funding to flow to public schools around Australia. However, the Minister’s release does not commit to funding all public schools to 100% of the Schooling

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

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

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