The Victorian government is bristling after Canberra tied federal funding to school reforms including mandatory phonics tests. Education advocates want an end to the stoush.
A stoush over billions of dollars in funding linked to sweeping school reforms has a leading eduction advocate warning that the row between the states and the federal government threatens to adversely affect millions of Australian students.is bristling at federal Education Minister Jason Clare’s approach to negotiations, after he tied reforms including mandatory phonics tests to a school funding boost for Victoria worth $3.5 billion over 10 years.
Clare has made the federal funding boost conditional on a raft of reforms including phonics checks for all first-graders, behaviour and attendance standards, early years maths checks and a 7.5 per cent boost to completion rates for year 12 students.He wants the states to pick up the remaining 2.5 per cent needed to take school funding to the 25 per cent of the benchmark “schooling resource standard” as recommended by David Gonski’s landmark 2012 report into the nation’s education system.
“An additional 2.5 per cent from the Commonwealth, or a rollover of the current agreement with no additional funding, does not deliver this and could entrench inequality in a way that we have not seen since the federal Coalition government was in power.”
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