• MolvanianDentistOP
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    An(other?) example of the federal government gradually shifting the burden of both funding and service delivery onto the states.

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      Yep and the results are stark. All of the public schools near me look like sad run down places. With funding proportional to enrolments, theres a snowball effect where public schools get defunded as more and more parents opt to go private or indeed move out of a neighbourhood completely because they want a passable standard of facilities for their kids

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      Cobbold said the funding model for public schools was further undermined in 2017, when the Turnbull government introduced an “arbitrary” commonwealth funding cap of 20% for public schools, with the remainder to be covered by state governments. For non-government schools, the caps are the reverse.

      The president of the Australian Education Union, Correna Haythorpe, said putting the onus on the states to implement 80% of funding failed to adhere to the Gonski review’s recommendation that the commonwealth should put in more, given its greater capacity to raise revenue.

      Gah. This is infuriating.

      But also, putting the blame entirely on the Commonwealth is a bit unfair here. With states increasing public school funding by tiny amounts (the best a state did was just 22.16%), with one state actually funding schools 5.6% less (and one territory decreasing by even more than that) and the states averaging about 10%, I think the State Governments deserve a healthy heaping of blame for themselves, too.

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    How not shocking. And how not shocking that Labor isn’t reversing this as I’m sure all their kids go to private schools. And it just creates a vicious cycle in terms of schools and school resources.

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      You mean the “Labour” government that has been in twice since WorkChoices and yet Australian workers do not have the right to strike? Yeah I’m super not surprised they’re disappointing.

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        The ALP and LNP are effectively the same party where it really matters; voting for either is a fools errand.

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    Yes but what is the actual amount of funding per student? That’s far more relevant than a percentage change.

    It doesn’t seem to be in the article?