| Description |
viii, 80 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Series |
Australian education review ; number 60 |
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Australian education review ; no. 60
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| Contents |
Foreword -- Schools funding in Australia -- Schools funding in Australia: scale and distribution -- Scale -- Distribution -- The educational purposes of schools funding -- Protecting the interests of students -- Major themes in schools funding -- Quality -- Equity -- Choice -- A general guide to the elements of schools funding -- Context -- Resource standards -- Cost drivers -- Funding responsibilities -- Funding allocation mechanisms -- Predictability and sustainability -- Accountability for public investment in schools -- Structure of this review -- Section 2 Commonwealth funding of Australian schools -- A history of Commonwealth funding -- The Menzies years: 1949-66 -- The Holt-Garton-McMahon years: 1966-72 -- The Whitlam years: 1972-75 -- Need vs entitlement -- The Fraser years: 1975-83 -- The Hawke-Keating years: 1983-96 -- New Schools Policy -- Changes to consultative and advisory structures and processes -- The Howard years: 1996-2007 -- Schools funding in the 2004 election campaign -- The Rudd-Gillard years: 2007-11 -- Trends in Commonwealth funding of schools 1972-2011 -- Trends in student enrolments, 1972-2011 -- Trends in teacher numbers, 1972-2011 -- Concluding comments -- Section 3 The Gonski Report -- Membership of the Gonski Review Panel -- Gonski Review Panel's process of consultation -- The context for the Gonski Review -- The Gonski Review Panel's recommendations -- The Gonski Schooling Resource Standard -- Gonski Panel's use of reference schools -- Loadings in addition to the minimum Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) -- Schools funding model -- Recommendations on capital and infrastructure funding -- Recommendations on national agreements -- National Schools Resourcing Body -- Cost of the Gonski model -- Initial reactions to the Gonski Report -- Gillard Government responses to the Gonski Report -- Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) -- Loadings -- Participating and non-participating schools -- Indexation -- Funding projections -- Gillard Government funding formulae - outcomes for schools -- Balancing Commonwealth and state contributions -- Gonski Report in the 2013 election campaign -- Abbott Government responses to the Gonski Report -- Concluding comments -- Section 4 Putting educational values back into schools funding -- Market forces intrinsic to schooling -- The effects of parental choice -- Market forces in the government and non-government sectors -- Growing socioeconomic stratification of Australian schools -- Counting the costs: social educational and financial -- Stratification and achievement -- Stratification and resource inequalities -- Counting the financial costs -- Has government funding of non-government schools saved public money? -- Australia's unique schools funding context -- International approaches to school reform -- Politics and schools funding in Australia -- Conservative politics -- Labor politics -- Sources of problems with schools funding -- A funding scheme at war with itself -- Schools funding in a dysfunctional federalism -- The uses and abuses of financial statistics -- The unsustainable state of schools funding in Australia -- Financial and demographic pressures -- The weakening architecture of schools funding -- The fragile hybrid system of schooling in Australia -- Strengthening the hybrid system -- Policy reform for a robust, fair, high quality hybrid -- Building consensus on school funding reform -- Concluding comments -- Commonwealth funding policies for schools: 1964-2011 - References |
| Summary |
AER 60 takes the 2011 Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling as a vantage point, from which to consider the national funding of schools in Australia, past and future. Section 1 outlines the educational values and perspectives that have underpinned school funding policies and programs and describes major themes in the evolution of schools funding - quality, equity and choice - providing a general guide for subsequent analyses. Section 2 provides a policy history of schools funding 1964 - 2011, during which time the Commonwealth government emerged as a significant funding partner. It analyses the political forces and recurring themes, policy issues and tensions that have affected the distribution of resources within and between the school sectors - providing context for an examination of the Gonski Review. Section 3 concerns the Gonski Panel's Report: a substantial summary and analysis of its findings and recommendations, and stakeholder responses to it. The distinctive nature and characteristics of schools funding policy in Australia are then analysed in Section 4, in the light of the Gonski Report's recommendations. The authors argue that cumulative political compromises have left Australia with a hybrid school system which is inequitable and unsuited to Australia's changing social and economic circumstances. The review paper makes the case for a new schools funding architecture to be developed in the context of the federal system. The authors urge that it should be one with clear priorities in regard to a greater coherence between the provision of public funding and the achievement of educational goals for all children |
| Analysis |
Australia |
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Australian |
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Gonski Review |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
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viii, 80p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-80) |
| Notes |
Also available online. Address as at 17.11.15 |
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In English |
| Subject |
Education -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Education -- Australia -- Finance.
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Federal aid to education -- Australia.
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| Author |
McMorrow, Jim, author
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Australian Council for Educational Research, issuing body
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| ISBN |
1742862861 |
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9781742862866 |
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