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Imperatives in school funding : equity, sustainability and achievement / Lyndsay Connors and Jim McMorrow.

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Record Number 17503
ISBN 9781742862866
Author Connors, Lyndsay
Title Imperatives in school funding : equity, sustainability and achievement / Lyndsay Connors and Jim McMorrow. [Electronic resource]
Published Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2015.
Collation viii, 80 pages; 30cm.
Series Australian education review no. 60.
Summary Note "Politicians have attempted to deal with parents’ preferences about the schooling of their own children, ranging from the mild to the strong, by attempting to obscure in policy the very real differences in values that underpin public schooling and the current forms of non-government schooling in Australia; and by allowing market forces to dictate the directions in which public investment should flow, without due regard to the common good. The question of the degree of equality of opportunity to which Australians might aspire appears to have been replaced by the question of what degree of inequality of educational opportunity and achievement, and of school resources for their children, are the majority of Australians prepared to accept? There is a need to return to the issue of the basic values that underpin our diverse and legitimate forms of schooling, public and private, and to put intellectual and political effort, mutual respect and goodwill into understanding the differences between them. Only then can genuine and sustainable compromise be found. It is imperative that such a compromise be found. The policies that have encouraged Australians to express their aspirations, cultural differences, loyalties and tastes through the construction of a socioeconomically stratified and segregated school system have proven to be costly and to have delivered a poor yield on our national investment in relation to advancing educational achievement. These policies have also positioned our school system as a source of ongoing social divisiveness and of persisting educational inequalities. This review paper has concluded with criteria for achieving school funding reform. How the nation decides to invest its public resources in schools is a clear and tangible indicator of the value it attaches to its children and their education. What can Australians afford to spend on our schools and what educational purposes do we want our public investment in schools to achieve? These kinds of question provide a starting point for policy development that leads to a system of schooling in which there is integrity between educational goals and objectives and the funding required for their achievement." - Concluding comments, p. 70-71.
Subject Education -- Australia -- Finance
Federal aid to education -- Australia
Education -- Economic aspects -- -- Australia
Educational equalization -- Australia
Gonski report
Added Name McMorrow, Jim
Added Corporate Name Australian Council for Educational Research
Internet Site http://research.acer.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=aer
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