Blaming private schools for the underfunding of state schools is nonsense

📆 12/09/2024 8:47 PM

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Australia has far more private schools than most other countries in the OECD, so it is not surprising we spend more money on them.

The idea that public schools are underfunded in Australia is persistently being depicted as a ghastly controversy, a zero-sum game: public versus private; give to one, you take from the other; four legs good, two legs bad. Ain spending more on private schools than the global average, based on a recent snapshot of school funding from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

So, blaming the funding of Australian private schools for the underfunding of state schools is simply nonsense. Nor is it the language of those who actually govern. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare hasdeclared triumphantly that the Northern Territory and Western Australia will have fully funded public schools by 2026.

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