Public education may cease to exist unless we urgently and fully fund public schools
It is no exaggeration to say that public education as we know it may cease to exist unless radical funding re-allocations are made.
As Gonski panel member Ken Boston says, the Gonski reforms have been “politicised, bastardised and cherry-picked”.
No other country in the developed world pumps as much money into their private school system as Australia does. With every stitched up budget, with every hamstrung bilateral agreement, with every extra cent for private schools, our kids’ futures get darker and the inequality gap gets wider.
This is the last chance for public schooling in Australia. If we don’t start investing more money in the public sector, and taking it away from the overfunded private sector, we are giving up on equity in Australian education.