A new analysis calculates that governments spend $4.6 billion less each year than they would if all students were enrolled in public schools.
Independent and Catholic schools are saving governments $4.6 billion a year as parents pick up the difference between what the taxpayer contributes and the cost of educating children, a new analysis claims.
The Catholic Schools NSW analysis calculates that federal and state governments spend $4.6 billion less than they would if all students were enrolled in public schools.Mr McInerney said education unions and public school activists often presented the debate on school funding as “a zero-sum game between different schools and unhelpfully tinged with appeals to envy and populism”.
“Despite significant taxpayer funding, non-government schools are free to charge fees as they please, and this inevitably excludes low-income families,” Mr Greenwell said. “For decades, non-government schools in Australia have been subsidised without basic rigour and prudence.”
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