With the Education Minister’s school funding deadline to the states expiring today, the Greens say Federal Labor must raise the federal public school contribution to at least 25% and stop standing in the way of doing the bare minimum to drag our public school system back from the brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labor\u2019s proposed deal will actually lock in another decade of underfunding for public schools, cementing Australia\u2019s school system as one of the OECD\u2019s most unequal and segregated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson on Primary and Secondary Education, Senator Penny Allman-Payne:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn the same day the Government announced another surplus, Labor is turning its back on public school kids and threatening another decade of underfunding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPublic school parents, carers and teachers know that this is a cruel and visionless approach to public schooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFederal Labor is choosing to give private schools $51 million per day, but they\u2019re obstinately standing in the way of doing the bare minimum to bring our public school system back from the brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLet me be clear: public schools deserve full ongoing funding and cannot be left to scrape by on less than the bare minimum. Labor\u2019s deal is not a deal for full funding, and independent fact checkers<\/a> have labelled Mr Clare\u2019s claims as misleading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPublic schools are currently underfunded by $32 billion across the next five years and this deal will not bridge that gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am seriously concerned that the Government intends to set and forget their contribution to public schooling at 22.5% or lower \u2013 when it should be at least 25% \u2013 thereby locking in another generation of disadvantage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the Education Minister’s school funding deadline to the states expiring today, the Greens say Federal Labor must raise the federal public school contribution to at least 25% and stop standing in the way of doing the bare minimum to drag our public school system back from the brink. Labor\u2019s proposed deal will actually lock … Continue reading “Federal Labor must step up to save public schools”<\/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-29355","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\/29355","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=29355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29356,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions\/29356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}