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Aussie public schools are losing out on $19-billion in funding

Australian Education Union claims new report shows the government is clearly failing public schools and calls for ‘inequity’ to be fixed.

Mike Simpson by Mike Simpson
05-10-2020 07:00
in News
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An independent report released on Friday reveals that Australian public schools will miss out on $19-billion in funding over the next four years, the Australian Education Union (AEU) has claimed.

The AEU is a trade union that represents Australian public school, early childhood and TAFE teachers.

The report by economist Adam Rorris, a former advisor to the Australian Government and the World Bank, uses the government’s own funding figures and enrolment projections to show the shortfall between funding that is available to public schools and the minimum funding that is required to meet a student’s educational needs, based on recommendations from the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling.

Developed a fair school funding system

The Gonski Review, published in 2011, was established to develop a funding system for Australian schooling which is transparent, fair, financially sustainable and effective in promoting excellent outcomes for all Australian students.

On top of the massive recurrent funding shortfall of $19-billion, state or territory funding contributions can also include school transport costs, asset depreciation and the cost of running education standards authorities.

These authorities provide service to both public and private schools, yet are charged entirely as expenses for public schools only.

‘Segregated rort against public schools’

Rorris calls this a “segregated rort against public schools” that deprives them of close to a further $2 billion each year. In total this brings the combined funding shortfall to $27-billion.

“In the week before the budget, this report clearly sets out how the Federal Government is failing public schools. They must address this inequity in funding,” AEU Federal President Correna Haythorpe said in a statement.

“Teachers are working harder than ever to deliver a great public education to larger and more complex classes.

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“A shortfall of $19-billion means that public schools, which educate the vast majority students, are missing out on the opportunity to benefit from extra literacy and numeracy help, or any specialist support they may need to help students reach their full potential. Above all, addressing funding shortfall would mean more teachers, for more one-on-one attention for students.”

“Covid-19 has already highlighted the deep divide between private and public schools, and shone a light on the level of unmet need caused by the Commonwealth’s funding failures in recent years.”

The AEU says it is now calling on the government to “fix this inequity by addressing the funding shortfall for public schools in next week’s budget”.

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