The Greens say Labor must eliminate dodgy accounting tricks from new bilateral deals on school funding, with states and territories currently able to include 4% in non-school spending in their public school funding share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Morrison-era trickery means that yesterday\u2019s WA deal will only deliver 96% of minimum funding to the state\u2019s public schools, locking in underfunding for the next six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens support calls for an increase of the Commonwealth share of public school funding from 20% to at least 25%, and introduced a bill last year to establish a 25% funding floor.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Greens spokesperson on Education (Primary & Secondary), Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor\u2019s announcement yesterday on WA public school funding shows that pressure from the Greens, unions, teachers, parents and carers is working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut let\u2019s be really clear: this is not a deal for full funding. It\u2019s not even a deal for minimum funding. It\u2019s a deal which locks in underfunding until 2029 for 300,000 WA schoolkids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor can\u2019t be taken seriously on public school funding while they perpetuate a Morrison-era sleight of hand that shortchanges our most disadvantaged kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor needs to be honest and transparent with parents, carers and teachers and they need to close this loophole in the next bilateral agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey should also support our bill to axe the 20% Commonwealth funding cap and replace it with a 25% floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPublic schools have waited long enough for 100% SRS funding. Let\u2019s just get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens say Labor must eliminate dodgy accounting tricks from new bilateral deals on school funding, with states and territories currently able to include 4% in non-school spending in their public school funding share. This Morrison-era trickery means that yesterday\u2019s WA deal will only deliver 96% of minimum funding to the state\u2019s public schools, locking … Continue reading “END DODGY ACCOUNTING TRICKS IN NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING DEALS”<\/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-25021","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\/25021","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=25021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25022,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021\/revisions\/25022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}