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Labor has proposed a public school funding boost – states, crossbenchers and the Greens want more. What happens now?

The federal government says states and territories must ‘chip in’ to close the gap – but they say they’ve done the ‘heavy lifting’

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Greens to call for inquiry into public funding of Exclusive Brethren schools

Advocacy group Save Our Schools also backs inquiry into funding for religious-linked institution that received more than $130m from taxpayers over five years

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Scott Morrison-era ‘accounting tricks’ to cost public schools $13bn over next five years

National School Resourcing Board’s review finds state schools lost more than $2bn in 2022 due to a Coalition-era loophole

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Public school advocates warn Albanese government billions at stake if it breaks funding promise

Advocates say Coalition-era loophole has robbed public schools of $13bn, with $26bn to be lost by 2029 if Labor fails to close it in agreements with states

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Sydney private school’s $108m expansion plan exposes education funding inequity, advocate says

MLC school in Burwood overfunded by $2.7m in 2024, figures revealed in Senate show, making it among 40% of private schools overfunded by commonwealth

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‘Deliberate lie’: education lobby group says ‘landmark’ school agreement falls short of 100% funding

Federal and WA state governments’ public school funding deal dismissed as ‘not good enough’ by Australian Education Union

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Nearly 80% of Australian students say they ‘didn’t fully try’ in latest Pisa tests

Exclusive: OECD data on students’ motivation and sense of belonging at school calls into question validity of national rankings, experts say

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Australia’s poorest children are five years behind richest peers, Naplan analysis shows

Exclusive: Significant gaps in literacy and numeracy between pupils of different backgrounds, according to study by public school advocacy group

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Australian public school funding falls behind private schools as states fail to meet targets

Calls for special deal to be struck for NT, which has biggest funding gap between public and private schools

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Private school funding increased twice as much as public schools’ in decade after Gonski, data shows

Exclusive: government funding since landmark education review released ‘has gone to those least in need’, says national convenor of Save Our Schools

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Labor’s delay on public schools funding deal a ‘betrayal’ of disadvantaged students, advocates say

Australia’s education minister Jason Clare says government still committed to schools getting 100% ‘fair funding’

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Crikey’s cheat-sheet guide to the Victorian election. Today: education

Even after Saturday’s poll the state’s public schools will continue to languish as the country’s most underfunded and underprivileged.

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NSW and Victoria to push Albanese government to close public school funding gap

Education ministers say they will demand increase in federal investment to reach 100% of Gonski funding benchmark

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The Gonski ‘failure’: why did it happen and who is to blame for the ‘defrauding’ of public schools?

The 10-year anniversary of the plan has sparked criticism of the successive governments’ failure to implement the report’s recommendations

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Private school funding in Australia has increased at five times rate of public schools, analysis shows

Government funding for independent schools increased by $3,338 a student over a decade, compared with $703 more per student for public schools

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