{"id":8009,"date":"2020-09-03T04:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2020-09-03T04:41:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:41:03","slug":"bishops-rorting-poor-students-must-be-held-accountable-greens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/bishops-rorting-poor-students-must-be-held-accountable-greens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops Rorting Poor Students Must Be Held Accountable: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Spokesperson for Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reacted to the Catholic Schools NSW\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-09-02\/how-the-catholic-school-system-takes-from-the-poor\/12588920?nw=0\">documents leaked to the ABC<\/a>\u00a0that confirm their practice of taking funding meant for disadvantaged schools to subsidise fees in wealthy areas.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cPrivate school rorting of their disadvantaged students like this should be illegal. It\u2019s an indictment on our education system that it\u2019s not.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is galling confirmation of the dirty open secret of Australian school funding.<br \/>\n\u201cLiberal and Labor governments have been running a protection racket for private schools for years.<br \/>\n\u201cThat this went on was well known, but the major parties have spent years avoiding putting in place transparency requirements that would have confirmed it.<br \/>\n\u201cFor too long, private schools have benefited from opaque reporting requirements that mask where public funding is going. Every last public dollar spent in the private system should be reported and justified at a school level.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s clear the NSW Catholic Schools are more concerned with losing enrolments to public schools than they are about giving disadvantaged, First Nations and regional students the funding they are allocated.<br \/>\n\u201cThe ethics of this aren\u2019t just between the Bishops and God. The Bishops were fully aware they were ripping off low-SES families to help the wealthy. It\u2019s public money. They must apologise and be held accountable.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the system that successive Labor and Liberal governments have lavished with billions in special deals while they starved hardworking public school teachers and students of basic funding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Spokesperson for Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reacted to the Catholic Schools NSW\u00a0documents leaked to the ABC\u00a0that confirm their practice of taking funding meant for disadvantaged schools to subsidise fees in wealthy areas. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cPrivate school rorting of their disadvantaged students like this should be illegal. It\u2019s an indictment on our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/bishops-rorting-poor-students-must-be-held-accountable-greens-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bishops Rorting Poor Students Must Be Held Accountable: Greens&#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-8009","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\/8009","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=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}