LNP Government Likely To Have Secured Numbers In Senate To Pass The New School Funding “Gonski 2.0” Model Into Law

The original article Gonski 2.0 victory: Government secures numbers to pass new funding model into law is on the SMH, you can follow the link the get the full detail if you want. Overall there is relatively change happened to the original proposal and real life politics means often compromises has to be made, so having some like delay to the cut to the funding to the Catholic sector is not unexpected. I am a supporter and proponent of public education and I agree the changes are due in how the schools are funded, a more uniform and properly carried funding would benefit Australian children in years to come.

I am not privy to the exact details, just looking at what is in the news it is a big step towards the right direction which is why I guess LNP managed to secure the support of almost every single one of the crossbench senators to get this to pass. This is in sharp contrast to many of other vindictive policies of recent LNP ideologically driven policies, this is one is a sharp improvement is done right.

There are some lingering questions in my mind such as equality of the funding, such as that some top private schools can charge 20k to 30k per student already and still receive significant government funding. This also projected to grow by a large percentage of some schools which do not really make a lot of sense to me, would not the money be better off spending on schools that need it more and building new ones to better cope with the growing populations.

The key I guess is the following which if done right can set the Australian education funding on the right path for the decades to come.

The government agreed to major concessions to win support for its package, including moving schools to their target funding levels within six years instead of a decade.

The speedier timeline adds $4.9 billion to the $18.6 billion in extra spending over a decade the government had already announced.

It is estimated that $3.3 billion of the new spending secured by the crossbench will flow to public schools.

The government will also introduce new rules forcing state governments to increase their school spending and will create an independent schools resourcing body as recommended by the Gonski report.

It has also agreed to one-year transition arrangements, costing $50 million, for the Catholic sector and other independent school systems and a review of the socio-economic status formula underlying the funding model.

From the above points, the most important is actually establishment of an independent school resourcing body and review of the socio-economic status formula underlying the funding model. Please please do it and get it right.

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