Save Our Schools Australia is a public education advocacy group supporting equity in education
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Is that all there is? A bad deal for government schools - johnmenadue.com/is-that-all-…
School funding must change to improve equity and achievement in Australian schools education.unimelb.edu.au/new…
The Treasury Tax Expenditure & Insights Statement shows it is a golden age of tax concessions for the rich. They benefitted $40 billion from 7 major tax concessions in 2019-20. The avarice of the rich is robbing disadvantaged schools & other public services of funding.
Failed school reforms remain three years after ‘ad-hoc’ policy dropped smh.com.au/politics/nsw/fail…
‘Transformational gifts’: Perth’s richest schools get close to $70 million in donations watoday.com.au/national/west…
Sydney private schools spend millions on land for new campuses. It is a new round of the arms race in luxurious faciliteis part funded by by the taxpaher. Recurrent taxpayer funding allows more fee income to be spent on luxury faciliteis. smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydn…
44 wealthy Vic private schools have raked in $300M in donations & investment income in 5 years. This income is ignored in assessing their need for govt funding. It is a major flaw in how privae schools are funded so they are massively over-funded. Read @ bit.ly/3KkrJcL
Shocking Inequity in NSW school outcomes and funding - johnmenadue.com/shocking-ine…
Labor’s delay on public schools funding deal a ‘betrayal’ of disadvantaged students, advocates say theguardian.com/australia-ne…
This is a powerful piece on the role of private schools in the UK with relevance to Aust. Radical change being needed to overcome elitism in education | Observer editorial theguardian.com/commentisfre…
More obsenity by elite private schools. Principals at top private schools notch up pay packages of nearly $1 million supported by taxpayer funding smh.com.au/national/nsw/prin…
NT's racist schol funding system exposed. Some remote NT schools receiving funding for less than half of enrolled students under 'effective enrolment' model, data reveals abc.net.au/news/2022-11-16/n… via @ABCaustralia
Victoria is a failed education state because it has failed to fully fund public schools. Vic public schools are equal second most under-resourced system in Aust. They are funded at only 84.6% of their Schooling Resource Standard while private schools are funded at 102%
One quarter of low SES & Indigenous Year 9 students in Victoria are below reading national standards. One-third are below the writing standard.Victoria is not "The Education State".
Far from being "The Education State" claimed by the Andrew Govt, Victoria is a failed eduation state. It continues to fail on equity in school outcomes. It continues to vastly under-resource public schools. Read @ bit.ly/3tvFbAw
Disadvantaged year 9 students have the academic level of a year 5 child theage.com.au/national/victo…
Cranbrook unveils $125m revamp. This arms race is fuelled by govt funding. Cranbrook got $6M in govt funding in 2020. This frees up fee income to gold plate their facilities. It is an obsenity that such schhools get govt funding smh.com.au/national/nsw/cran…
Australia’s inequality machine runs on insecure labour and wage theft theage.com.au/national/austr…
If Australia wants to improve school outcomes, we need to define what 'equity' really means theconversation.com/if-austr… via @ConversationEDU
