Key Challenges for the Funding Review From the AEU
A new report highlights the six key challenges that must be addressed by the expert panel conducting the funding review.
The Real Reform report by funding expert Dr Jim McMorrow says the funding review and the Government’s response to it early next year was critical and could determine the long-term future of schooling in Australia and, in particular, the nature and quality of public schooling.
The McMorrow report, which was commissioned by the Australian Education Union, warns that schools funding in Australia has got to the point where “dysfunction, if not corruption, is evident on a number of fronts”.
Dr McMorrow identifies six key challenges for the review, headed by Dr David Gonski, as part of the reform of school funding arrangements.
Those challenges are:
*Achieving a mature partnership between Commonwealth and State and Territory governments
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*Use public funds to narrow resource gaps between schools that cannot be justified on educational grounds
Dr McMorrow said the removal of any means test for private school funding in 2001 had profound consequences.
It had led to a growing inequity in schooling outcomes and a widening of the resource gaps between public and private schools.
He said the wealth and resources of private schools should again be taken into account when the funding for them was being decided.
Read the story here at Public Schools For Our Future
http://www.forourfuture.org.au/836343.html
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