Fee Increases Outstrip Cost Increases in Elite Private Schools in Queensland

Posted on Friday January 20, 2012

School fees in Queensland’s elite private schools have increased by nearly 6% in 2012, well over cost increases of 3.9%. Eleven elite schools will get $57 million in Federal Government funding in 2012. >> Read on...

Private School Funding Figures are a Shambles

Posted on Friday January 13, 2012

The latest National Report on Schooling in Australia presents widely differing figures on private school funding. One series has private school funding increasing by 9% between 2005-06 and 2008-09 while the other shows an increase of 33%. One series has government funding of private schools increasing by less than government school funding while the other shows private school funding increasing much faster than government school funding. The report fails to explain these differences. < >> Read on...

Govt. Funding Increases Have Favoured the Wealthiest Schools

Posted on Tuesday January 10, 2012

New figures show that Australia’s wealthiest school sector received the biggest increases in government funding over much of the past decade. Government schools received the smallest increase. >> Read on...

Fee Increases Outstrip Cost Increases in Elite Private Schools in Victoria

Posted on Tuesday December 20, 2011

School fees in Victoria’s elite private schools are set to increase by nearly 6% in 2012. At Geelong Grammar they will top $30,000 for the first time. Several others will pass $25,000 for the first time. Yet, they will rake in nearly $100 million in federal government funding in 2012. The Gonski Review of School Funding must put a stop to this upper class welfare.< >> Read on...

Private Schools Will Get a Funding Bonanza from Voucher Models

Posted on Friday December 9, 2011

Voucher funding models proposed to the School Funding Review would deliver a massive funding boost to private schools and give them a huge resource advantage over government schools. The biggest funding increases would go to the wealthiest private schools. >> Read on...

The Pressure is on the Gonksi Review to Deliver on Equity

Posted on Wednesday November 23, 2011

If the Gonski Review of school funding is to deliver on its own equity goal it must deliver a new school funding model that restricts funding for wealthy private schools and provide a large boost in funding for government schools. < >> Read on...

C.I.S Funding Model Provides More for Private Schools

Posted on Friday November 4, 2011

The funding model proposed by the Centre for Independent Studies fails the equity test. It provides increased government funding for the large majority of private schools, maintains government funding for wealthy private schools and gives no funding increase to government schools even though they enrol the vast majority of disadvantaged students. >> Read on...

Govt. Largesse of $6m for Geelong Grammar

Posted on Tuesday October 25, 2011

Geelong Grammar’s fees will top $30,000 in 2012. It serves the wealthiest families in Australia and will get over $6 million in government funding in 2012. Meanwhile, neighbouring government schools serving some of the most disadvantaged families in the country are denied adequate funding to meet their challenges. It points to the need to change the current school funding system. >> Read on...

Budget Gives Priority to Funding Privilege and Market-Based Programs

Posted on Wednesday May 18, 2011

Equity in education is the major loser in the Commonwealth Schools Budget as the Labor Government continues to give greater priority to funding privilege and market-based programs than reducing disadvantage in education. >> Read on...

An Alternative Funding Model for Government and Private Schools

Posted on Thursday May 12, 2011

A brief summary of the new funding model for government and private schools recommended to the Gonski Review of School Funding by Save Our Schools. < >> Read on...

SOS Calls for Increased Funding for Govt Schools and a New Funding Model for Private Schools

Posted on Thursday April 21, 2011

The Save Our Schools submission to the Gonski School Funding Review calls for a boost in government school funding and a new funding model to replace the SES funding model for private schools. >> Read on...

School Funding Review Must Deliver More Resources for Government Schools

Posted on Wednesday April 13, 2011

The future of Australia’s education system is in the hands of the current review of school funding. It must deliver more resources for government schools to improve equity in education and it must devise a new funding model to replace the failed SES funding scheme. >> Read on...

Private Schools Make A Brazen Grab for More Resources

Posted on Wednesday March 30, 2011

Major private school organisations have conceded that their $700 million a year over-funding bonanza is dead in the water in its current form. However, they are unrepentant. They want another arrangement to guarantee their privileged funding. Incorporation of the over-funding into the SES funding rate structure would mean a $4 billion a year increase in government funding for private schools. < >> Read on...

The Tide is Turning Against Elite Private School Funding

Posted on Tuesday March 22, 2011

Government funding for wealthy private schools has come under fire as never before in recent weeks. >> Read on...

Labor MP Supports Maintaining Public Funding to High-fee Private Schools

Posted on Friday March 18, 2011

Recently elected ACT Labor MP, Andrew Leigh, has declared his support for maintaining current levels of Commonwealth Government funding to high-fee private schools. >> Read on...

Many Disadvantaged Govt Schools Get Less Govt Funding than Private Schools

Posted on Saturday March 12, 2011

My School 2.0 has demolished the myth that all private schools get less government funding than government schools. It shows that many disadvantaged government schools get less government funding than many more privileged private schools. >> Read on...

Productivity Commission Questioned on School Funding Figures

Posted on Monday March 7, 2011

The Productivity Commission was questioned at Senate Estimates on disparities between school funding figures published in the Commission’s Report on Government Services and other official figures. >> Read on...

Private Schools Want to Abolish Free Public Education

Posted on Saturday March 5, 2011

Private schools want to abolish free public education. >> Read on...

Over-Funding Bonanza for Melbourne’s Most Privileged

Posted on Tuesday March 1, 2011

The SES funding model for private schools is delivering millions of dollars in over-funding to many of Melbourne’s most privileged families and schools. In 2010, total Federal Government funding of twenty primary and secondary schools in the eastern suburbs was nearly double that warranted by their assessed SES score.< >> Read on...

ACT Private Schools are Over-Funded

Posted on Wednesday February 23, 2011

Canberra’s private schools received $43 million more than they were entitled to in 2010 under the Federal Government’s funding formula. Almost every private school benefitted from the over-funding. >> Read on...

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