Today’s Age reports on a major cut to school funding made by the Victorian government in 2024, and “buried in last year’s budget papers”. The article begins: The state government secretly ripped $2.4 billion from state schools after delaying by three years its commitment to provide the funding required to pay for the long-promised Gonski

Parents Victoria is one of 31 organisations that have joined the Australian Education Union (AEU) to write to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, urging him to support the public school funding agreements recently announced by the Albanese Government. The open letter, published in The Australian last week, calls on Peter Dutton to give bipartisan support to the

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