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Imperatives In Schools Funding: Equity, Sustainability And Achievement, Lyndsay Connors, Jim Mcmorrow
Imperatives In Schools Funding: Equity, Sustainability And Achievement, Lyndsay Connors, Jim Mcmorrow
Australian Education Review
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, …