ACT schools well funded but fewer kids from disadvantage reach Year 12
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In 2018, the government unveiled a new 10-year plan for education in Canberra, which put equity at the heart of the sector’s performance. That included the recent roll-out of Chromebooks in schools, designed to place technology in the hands of every student regardless of their family’s means.
Unadjusted for inflation, the ACT still spent about 18 per cent more than the national state average on education. But per-student funding slowed down compared to other jurisdictions in the past nine years – at 3.22 per cent compared to 10.82 on average.
Over the next decade, all schools in Australia will have their funding adjusted according to a needs-based formula introduced under the Gonski reforms, known as the Schooling Resource Standard. That will see a number of over-funded non-government schools lose money, but will also see many cash-starved public schools topped up.
The ACT government says that when the original Gonksi model was put in place, territory funding to most public schools was above the new standard, while funding in almost all other jurisdictions fell below that standard, so spending is being “trended down” to meet that standard over time.
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