An article by Chip LeGrand in today’s Age lays out the cold, hard facts about school funding in Victoria – we have the worst funded government schools in Australia.
According to the article:
Every other state and the ACT have inked long-term agreements with Canberra that set out when and how they will deliver 100 per cent of the SRS and in doing so, realise the needs-based schools funding that David Gonski first articulated 15 years ago.
Western Australia, Tasmania and the ACT are already there. NSW and South Australia are fully funding their part – a minimum, 75 per cent share of the SRS – and Queensland will join them in 2028.
Victoria is the only jurisdiction without a long-term plan to pay for the Gonski reforms. Instead, it has a single year stop-gap agreement that keeps the funding arrangements of the previous three years and avoids the need for this year’s budget to provide extra cash for state schools and a much-needed pay raise for teachers.
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