The Greens have welcomed the AEU\u2019s new campaign for fully funded public schools and are calling on governments to stop gifting money to elite private schools and finally deliver on the promise of Gonski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCongratulations to the AEU for launching their For Every Child campaign for fully funded public schools. The union is right: public school kids deserve 100% funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut schools can\u2019t wait until the end of the next national funding agreement to get the money they desperately need. That\u2019s 2028. Another five years away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat means a public school student in year 7 today will graduate high school having never experienced a fully resourced education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are currently 2.6 million kids enrolled in public schools in Australia. About 2.5 million of them have never experienced a single day at a fully resourced school. Not one day. How many more kids are governments prepared to let down? What\u2019s an acceptable number?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThings are getting desperate. Overworked teachers, often forced to pay for basic educational resources schools can\u2019t afford, are leaving in droves. Out-of-pocket costs for parents and carers are soaring. More students are disengaging and performance is dropping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralia now has one of the most privatised and inequitable school systems in the world. It\u2019s a system that heaps privilege onto a fortunate few under the guise of \u2018parental choice\u2019, while robbing millions of disadvantaged kids of their futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor has an historic opportunity to right the wrongs of the past. They have a weak and chaotic opposition, friendly governments in every mainland state and territory, and a budget surplus of $20 billion. They could end this crisis tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens are calling on Labor to guarantee full funding to all public schools from the start of the next national funding agreement in January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur kids can\u2019t wait any longer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have welcomed the AEU\u2019s new campaign for fully funded public schools and are calling on governments to stop gifting money to elite private schools and finally deliver on the promise of Gonski. Greens spokesperson on schools, Senator Penny Allman-Payne said: \u201cCongratulations to the AEU for launching their For Every Child campaign for fully … Continue reading “FULL FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22120,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions\/22120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}