Save Our Schools (SOS) has called on the Federal Government to fully fund public school in line with the resource standard identified by the Gonski Report 12 years ago.
The SOS media release, written by economist and SOS Convenor Trevor Cobbold (pictured above), calls on federal and state governments to stop their “disgraceful squabbling over cost-shifting” and follow SOS’ three-point plan:
- The Commonwealth Government increase its share of funding for public schools from 20% to 25% of their SRS.
- State governments renounce the accounting tricks in the current agreements and increase their share of funding public schools to 75% of their SRS.”
- The Commonwealth and state governments end their over-funding of private schools.
