This school funding hole is something that's always existed as the Catholic Church, one of the wealthiest organisations on the planet earns annual billions from myriad profit/income earning ventures, tithing and charity. Often sourced from those with the least.

And as always with this Author, the focus is on school funding. rather than on student outcomes. All his alleged concerns would be completely dealt with if all school funding were funded using one funding model and that model would be a means-tested education endowment that the parent(s) directed.

Always providing, any and all religious education occurred after nominated school hours. Meaning those not inclined to indoctrination of a particular view of alleged faith, can as they ought to be free to do. Opt out. And thus oblige the religious folk to led by example and deed, not endless brainwashing rhetoric.

This sole funding model should apply to all public and private school where some are the private preserve of the most privileged, who to a generic man, would/can so arrange their finances so as to only ever pay 5 cents in the dollar. None of the ultra-privileged earn their own money! But exploit the brains and bent wet backs of others, to do it for them.

the latter being the very folk who actually create all the wealth the privileged acquire! This being so and with all the tax minimisation available to the privileged elite. A means-tested endowment is the only fair and equitable model able to be put on the table! And the only one where we can see an actual increase of funding at the coal face, of up to 30%!

No more to be said, end of story and the start of screaming by the parasite class who live off of their fee and administration charges just for doling out the mediocrity we call education funding this country. Which in its present guise, probably funds more fat cat bureaucrats than the student body.

My model would exclude the former and more fully fund the latter!
Alan B.

Apologies and correction 5 cents in the dollar, should be read as 15 cents in the dollar.
Alan.