\u201cThis is a welcome step forward on public school funding that teachers, parents and carers in Victoria and South Australia will take heart from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPressure works. Teacher unions and the Greens have been pushing Labor to increase the Commonwealth share of public school funding to 25% and to eliminate the dodgy loophole that allows states to claim 4% in non-classroom costs as part of their contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll look at the details in the coming days but it appears that despite these steps forward we are still a decade away from 100% minimum funding for all public schools in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor came to government promising to deliver 100% funding to all public schools. If they\u2019re saying that every public school in the country will be receiving 100% of its minimum funding by 2034, that will have been a quarter of a century since Gonski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s two entire generations of schoolkids who will have never known what it\u2019s like to attend a properly resourced public school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Greens have a fully costed plan to deliver 100% funding to all public schools in the country by July 2025, and we\u2019ll also ease cost of living pressures on families by eliminating school fees and providing families with $800 back-to-school payments for every child in public school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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