The Age reports today on new research that shows the impact of under-funding on public school principals. The article begins: Public school principals’ jobs have been radically reshaped by the demands of a competitive and punitive funding system, according to a new study. School leaders told researchers they feel more like grant appliers and fundraisers

In this podcast produced by Kinship Carers Victoria, economist Trevor Cobbold talks us through the economic and structural inequality in our education system, in particular the under-funding of public schools in Victoria. In conversation with Kinship Carers Victoria Director Ann McLeish, Trevor lays out the evidence that over-funding of private schools has grown massively since

Two recent articles in the Educator provide an update on the progress of negotiations between the federal and state governments on school funding. “States given September deadline to sign up to school funding reforms” (31 July) “The Federal Government has given a two-month deadline for the States and Territories to sign up to student learning

Save Our Schools (SOS) has called on the Federal Government to fully fund public school in line with the resource standard identified by the Gonski Report 12 years ago. The SOS media release, written by economist and SOS Convenor Trevor Cobbold (pictured above), calls on federal and state governments to stop their “disgraceful squabbling over

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…