Funding “big lie” – SOS
Save Our Schools (SOS) has just released a statement headed, “Jason Clare’s Big Lie on Public School Funding”. The statement concerns the use of “accounting tricks” to misrepresent how much the states are contributing as part of their share of funding public schools. The SOS statement begins: The Federal Education Minister, Jason Clare, has adopted […]
Under-funding of public schools: podcast
In this podcast produced by Kinship Carers Victoria, economist Trevor Cobbold talks us through the economic and structural inequality in our education system, in particular the under-funding of public schools in Victoria. In conversation with Kinship Carers Victoria Director Ann McLeish, Trevor lays out the evidence that over-funding of private schools has grown massively since […]
