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This school is publicly subsidised!!!!!!! smh.com.au/national/nsw/adam…
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Is this an example of the Christian & private school values I am always being lectured about? theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Australia’s education system is a mess due to inadequate funding and severe imbalance between public and private schools. If there’s any point at all to a Labor Government it should be doing a root and branch overhaul of the system. Imagine AUKUS was scrapped and schools funded.
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Ok…that’s nice….pat on the back… but let’s get Victoria sorted. You may need to drag them kicking and screaming to the table but do it before they spend too much more money on private schools!
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Things they can do: overfund rich private schools.
Things they can’t do: fully fund public schools… #ForEveryChild
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Former public school students speak out on the dangers of adequate funding for public schools.
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Hundreds of students face a deadly gauntlet getting to and from an inner-city high school as they navigate a dangerous road amid calls for urgent safety upgrades @theheraldsun @hs4coburg heraldsun.com.au/leader/cobu…
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‘Governments in Australia pretend they cannot take money back from the richest schools and give just a little more to the poorest’
Searing Editorial in The @SatPaper
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opin… #auspol #education #Gonski #fairness
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If you charge users thousands to deliver a service, selectively choose who you want to deliver that service to and run at a profit sufficient to buy property and build multi million dollar facilities then how on earth are you a charity?
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Spineless.
Every time a funding decision is made that might diminish some of the financial largesse bestowed on non govt schools they squeal & the state or federal govt rolls over.
LNP or Labor, makes no difference. Both bow down to the non govt school lobby.
The Victorian government has walked back its plans to charge 110 high-fee private schools payroll tax and revealed the debt-busting measure will rake in less money than the state budget forecast just 10 days ago. theage.com.au/politics/victo…
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A Victorian parent just texted @Raf_Epstein to complain that if private schools now have to pay payroll tax & they pass this on as higher fees meaning some parents won’t be able to afford the school, then “where will our next community leaders come from?”
I can’t even.
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Real funding for public schools was cut by $17 per student (-0.2%) while funding for Catholic schools increased by $1,420 per student (18.4%) and for Independent schools by $1,318 (20.9%).
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Tell me this isn’t the best “traffic” you’ve ever seen. A school “bike bus” planned each Friday in Barcelona a few years back, grew from an initial 5 kids when it started. Safety in numbers — do you think you could do this in your city? Via @lljunca
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2/ If you know a mid-career teacher in Vic eager to continue transforming student lives, please do share: hubs.li/Q01Bqpm00. A large thank you to @tmbankau for this opportunity.
@AEUVictoria @DETVic @VPA71 @_vassp @OCOSVic @VicParents @janecaro @lilamularczyk
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The massive increase to
$717m for non-govt school infrastructure is a whopping 45% of the pledges for public schools ($1.6b)
BUT only 36.4% students attend non-gov schools in vic at 2022
PLUS non-gov schools can double dip and get Fed funding as well. – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Proportion of Vic students attending in 2022:
• Govt schools 63.55%
• Non-govt schools 36.4%
BUT non-gov schools have been pledged a whopping 45% of the infrastructure spend!
#springst #vicvotes @adamlcarey
2022 data:
education.vic.gov.au/Documen… – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Most accidents happen when school students are walking or riding.
Support the push for safer routes:
🔺 Elizabeth St ✍🏼 change.org/p/safe-pedestrian…
🔺 Bell St Bridge ✍🏼 change.org/p/the-hon-ben-car…
🔺 Murray Rd - contact @VicRoads and @MerribekCouncil who are looking at it now. – at Melbourne, Victoria
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@bicycle_network is calling on the State Government to commit more spend on active transport. The Climate Councils National People & Transport Poll 2022 revealed over two thirds of Austs think govts should invest more in bike lanes & footpaths.
theage.com.au/national/victo…
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#Breaking Thousands of current and former casuals at the University of Melbourne will be paid $22 million in wages they were denied between 2013 and 2021. theage.com.au/national/victo…