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Another Gonski deadline …. : Comments

By Dean Ashenden, published 3/7/2013

Even in the event of a Rudd miracle, and in the event of all states and sectors getting on board, and even in its now-attenuated form, Gonski will face serious obstacles.

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It's a pity that such a useful article is getting buried in detail which seems quite opaque.

It's a shame that the old State schools are being assailed on many fronts. Their best students are being taken away by the selective schools on one hand, and wealthy private schools on the other.

It's also a shame that there are few people prepared to defend the State schools, apart from the ever-present teacher unions, whose arguments often seem heavy-handed and ideological ("Public Education" always being held up as some sacred idea and so on).

Educational funding is still a mess and a muddle. The Whitlam years promised fairness, but did little to simplify the systems of inequality. Howard made it easy for private schools to be set up and compete easily with the State systems, which labour under the dead hand of dinosaurs , notably in NSW and Victoria.

It makes anyone who cares about injustice want to despair.
Posted by Bronte, Friday, 5 July 2013 5:29:34 AM
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Phaedrus,

I am sceptical of long-term projections of future funding for individual schools given how circumstances can change, the lack of detail and the absence of the assumptions on which the calculations are based. It does not make sense to me why the percentage increases would be different at all, unless the new funding model is being phased in in different ways for different schools.

This issue would not have arisen had the Gonski panel accepted my submission, which set a student learning entitlement (aka, SRS) but allowed state and territory supplements.

Bronte,

The details matter. So far, we have treated with a charade of reporting in which the key feature of the Gonski plan, its endorsement of the Coalition government’s SES model, has not been mentioned in even one article in The Age since the report was released. The public cannot judge the plan unless it has the details.
Posted by Chris C, Saturday, 6 July 2013 9:47:35 AM
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