{"id":25240,"date":"2024-02-16T00:19:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=25240"},"modified":"2024-02-16T00:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:19:15","slug":"labor-refuses-to-ditch-dodgy-morrison-era-loophole-from-public-school-funding-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/labor-refuses-to-ditch-dodgy-morrison-era-loophole-from-public-school-funding-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR REFUSES TO DITCH DODGY MORRISON-ERA LOOPHOLE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AGREEMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Senate Estimates this morning Labor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-xdijykd-ikjrmhyit-y\/\">refused to rule out dropping the dodgy accounting trick from bilateral funding agreements<\/a>&nbsp;which allows states and territories to meet less than their required commitment to public school funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Morrison government a clause was inserted into bilateral agreements between the Commonwealth and states and territories which allowed them to include 4% of non-school spending in their share of Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens spokesperson on Primary &amp; Secondary Education Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dThis morning\u2019s revelations prove that Labor\u2019s pledge to deliver \u2018full funding\u2019 to public schools is utterly hollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no commitment to full funding. There isn\u2019t even a commitment to minimum funding which, as the Department of Education confirmed today, is what the SRS represents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2022 when in opposition Labor said they would stop states and territories from claiming non-school costs as part of their SRS contribution, but that looks like another hollow promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis confirms that Labor\u2019s deal with the WA government actually locks in underfunding of 96% of the SRS into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Senate Estimates this morning Labor&nbsp;refused to rule out dropping the dodgy accounting trick from bilateral funding agreements&nbsp;which allows states and territories to meet less than their required commitment to public school funding. Under the Morrison government a clause was inserted into bilateral agreements between the Commonwealth and states and territories which allowed them to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/labor-refuses-to-ditch-dodgy-morrison-era-loophole-from-public-school-funding-agreements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR REFUSES TO DITCH DODGY MORRISON-ERA LOOPHOLE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AGREEMENTS&#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-25240","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\/25240","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=25240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25241,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240\/revisions\/25241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}