Billions in school funding will be tied to learning reforms

The federal government will tie billions of dollars in school funding to reforms and targets geared to, particularly among poorer students, improving mental health and ridding teachers of pointless paperwork and tasks.

Former chief executive of The Smith Family Lisa O’Brien will chair a panel of academics and experts who will report back to Mr Clare by October with recommendations for benchmarks that school systems must adopt to be eligible for funding under the National Schools Reform Agreement.into the agreement released in February showed a failure to deliver any real improvements in student learning despite combined state, territory and federal government expenditure totalling $106.

“The gap in reading skills of eight-year-olds from poor families is getting worse. Fifteen years ago, that gap was one year. Now it’s two. And that gap grows every year of school, so that by the time a student is in year 9 at high school, the gap in reading skills can be as much as four or five years.”The Productivity Commission said the most influential factor to improve academic outcomes was teacher effectiveness.

Over the next 10 years, public schools would have their funding increased, so they received 95 per cent of what is called the Schooling Resource Standard – or the estimate of how much total public funding each school needs to meet its educational needs. At the same time, private schools that received more than 100 per cent would have their funding reduced to meet that target.

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