The Productivity Commission found the $319 billion Gonski 2.0 funding has done little to arrest falling academic performance and school attendance rates and clear goals should be imposed on future agreements.
The Coalition’s $319 billion Gonski 2.0 funding has done little to arrest falling academic performance and school attendance rates and clear goals should be imposed on future agreements, a review of the system has concluded.
Specifically, the PC has called on states and territories to adopt targets to reduce the proportion of students who do not meet basic levels of literacy and numeracy, while also improving attendance rates. “Around one third of students who do not meet NAPLAN minimum standards in their early years of schooling do not meet NAPLAN minimum standards in later school years,” the PC report found.
“At just over five hours a week, this is the fifth-highest number of hours in the OECD,” the report said, noting that of the 45 hours, only about 55 per cent of that was spent in teaching or preparing for lessons.
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