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The Brave New World of Funding Under The Gonski Plan

The Gonski Review has proposed a very different landscape for the funding of all schools in Australia. His plan is just that - a plan. It lacks any of the fine detail that would be needed to do any solid planning in our schools.

It is unashamedly aspirational in that it challenges many of the traditional ways of thinking that have locked government and non-government schools into a destructive and draining struggle for decades. In particular, it calls on States and Territories to come to the party in pooling their education funds into a single 'pot' that would be distributed centrally under totally different mechanisms.

We now await the Federal Government's formal response and concrete details so that we can assess our actual position.

For now, AACS believes that this is a very promising blueprint that provides for a fair and adequate distribution of the limited resources amongst the many and varied students and their schools.

Perhaps the biggest questions hanging over the future are these:
1. It will require an additional $5bn at least to make it possible
2. It will need the support of a majority in both houses of parliament
3. Current funding agreements will run out at the end of 2013

Please visit our special Funding Review Website at www.schoolfunding.cen.edu.au. It will be updated regularly with information as it comes to hand.