Federal Education Minister Jason Clare announced today that the Federal and Northern Territory Governments have signed a bilateral agreement, to increase funding for all schools in the Northern Territory to 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) by 2029. Parents Victoria, along with the Australian Education Union and many other stakeholder groups under

This article in the Guardian exposes yet another unfair anomaly that sees wealthy private schools receive government disability assistance at far higher rates than public schools. According to the article: Wealthy private schools are receiving a government assistance payment for students with disabilities up to six times higher than that received in the public system…

Three of Australia’s wealthiest private schools got double the federal funding they were entitled to last year, according to an article in the Guardian. The article covers three Sydney schools; Northern Beaches Christian school, St Augustine’s College and MLC school. According to the article, the schools “…were funded at 171%, 160% and 158% of the

An article in today’s Age reveals the extra pressure on public school budgets caused by a drop in parent contributions. That pressure has only got worse since 2021 when the State Government forced public schools to be very clear with parents that levies are voluntary, not mandatory.  According to the article: Public schools are losing

Save Our Schools has reported (again) on the way public schools lose out because of accounting tricks in the allocation of school funding. According to the SOS article, published on 10 April 2024: A report tabled in Parliament last week has confirmed that public schools lost over $2 billion in funding in 2022 because of

This article by economist Trevor Cobbold from Save Our Schools shows the ongoing unfairness in our school funding system. According to the article: New figures again demonstrate the bias against public schools in Australia’s school funding system. Government funding for Catholic and Independent schools has increased much more than for public schools since 2009. Government