"Schools funding can't continue to be a play thing for the Turnbull-Joyce government," Greens Education spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said today.
"Minister Birmingham must stump up the courage to dump the Governments planned budget cuts and instead move ahead with a genuine needs-based funding model.
"State and Territory education ministers must send a clear message to the Minister today - to adequately fund schools and back away from the Government's mooted education funding cliff in 2018.
"The Government has its priorities all wrong. Malcom Turnbull wants to spend $50 billion on tax cuts for business and the big banks while cutting money to schools.
"I stand with parents and teachers across the country in saying, 'Drop the tax cuts and give us the money our schools need instead'.
"Education is a vital investment in our country's future. Unless we start funding our schools properly the gap between rich and poor kids will only get worse.
"Schools all over the country face losing billions of dollars when there are already too many doing it tough. A genuine needs-based model like a "real Gonski" funding model means schools that need help the most must get it and some of the over-funded, rich private schools must be prepared to share more
"After the farce of the last education minister meeting in September, it's time to get serious and put some money on the table so all Aussie kids have the best chance for a good education."
Friday, 16 December 2016
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