{"id":24197,"date":"2023-11-23T09:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T09:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=24197"},"modified":"2023-11-23T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T09:07:15","slug":"richest-schools-pocket-4-8-billion-while-public-system-remains-underfunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/richest-schools-pocket-4-8-billion-while-public-system-remains-underfunded\/","title":{"rendered":"RICHEST SCHOOLS POCKET $4.8 BILLION WHILE PUBLIC SYSTEM REMAINS UNDERFUNDED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With a new school funding agreement between the Commonwealth and the states and territories due to be negotiated in the new year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-i-xydlkhd-l-y\/\">new analysis<\/a>&nbsp;shows that Australia\u2019s richest 100 private schools by parent fees and contributions banked $4.8 billion in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total figure includes $776 million in funding from the Commonwealth and state governments \u2013 enough to fund the annual shortfall in the WA, SA, NT and Tasmanian public school systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens spokesperson on Education (Primary &amp; Secondary), Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt defies logic that when 98% of public schools are underfunded, rich private schools that are banking forty or fifty thousand dollars per student in fees and other contributions are still subsidised from the public purse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe quarter of a billion in annual funding these 100 super rich schools pocket from governments would be enough to close the combined annual public school funding gap in South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s more than half-a-million kids being denied a fully funded education because governments are too afraid to stand up to private schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of simply closing the public school funding gap when it was elected, Labor postponed the new National School Reform Agreement by a year, initiating yet another review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need another review to tell us what the problem is: public schools are underfunded. It\u2019s literally that simple.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor says any new funding will be \u2018tied\u2019 to targets. This sounds like weasel words to justify either not delivering 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard to all schools, or for attaching onerous conditions to desperately needed funding increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor is in power federally and in every mainland state and territory. There is absolutely no excuse for them to not end decades of decline and deliver 100% minimum funding to every public school at the start of the next NSRA, in January 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new school funding agreement between the Commonwealth and the states and territories due to be negotiated in the new year,&nbsp;new analysis&nbsp;shows that Australia\u2019s richest 100 private schools by parent fees and contributions banked $4.8 billion in 2021. The total figure includes $776 million in funding from the Commonwealth and state governments \u2013 enough &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/richest-schools-pocket-4-8-billion-while-public-system-remains-underfunded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RICHEST SCHOOLS POCKET $4.8 BILLION WHILE PUBLIC SYSTEM REMAINS UNDERFUNDED&#8221;<\/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-24197","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\/24197","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=24197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24198,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197\/revisions\/24198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}