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Australian public school funding falls behind private schools as states fail to meet targets
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to say whether the burden of funding for schools should be on states or the federal government, though at least with the states holding the majority of the burden it means that federal LNP governments aren't totally fucking up education for everyone.
That said, the only acceptable funding model (regardless of where the money comes from) is a base rate per student no matter what school they're in, then additional funding for public schools only.
There is a public school system available to everyone. If people want to send their kids to private schools, they have every right to, but should be prepared to cover 100% of the expenses without any aid from the government.
That sounds like it should be the case, but it isn't. The Catholic schools alone account for something like 20% of the Australian student population. If just those schools weren't there, our existing education system would collapse. Like it or not, we all rely on the presence of independant schools in our community.
This argument has been made before. In 1962, it lead to six Catholic schools in Goulburn to go on strike. The influx of 5,000 students on the public schools in the area demonstrated that independant schools save taxpayers money. Go have a read about it: https://www.robertmenziesinstitute.org.au/on-this-day/goulburn-catholic-school-strike
Imagine that on a national scale. And again, that's just the Catholics. There is not capacity in the public system for every student in Australia. Not by a long shot.
How can you consider Catholic schools "independent"?
And the idea isn't too get rid of those schools, it's to use the money that usually goes to these schools to fund regular public schools instead.