MASSIVE OVERFUNDING OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS
IN NSW AND QUEENSLAND
TREVOR COBBOLD
Australian citizens, and most particularly public school supporters, are being short changed and ignored in the current bread and circuses of federal politics. The Liberal Party is avoiding education as an issue and the Labor Party is skirting around the issue, trying to play safe with religious interest groups.
Public Schools in Victoria Face a Funding Crisis
Trevor Cobbold / March 14, 2022 / Funding See Save our Schools website
Invest where it matters : RORRIS REPORT ( AEU)
05 August 2021
Government spending on school facilities and buildings has favoured private schools to an “astonishing degree”, says a new report by economist Adam Rorris.
The report, Investing in Schools Equals Funding the Future, examines government funding for capital works over the 10 years to 2018.
Private schools received more funds for capital works in seven out of the 10 years, despite having about half the enrolments of public schools.
The Adam Rorris Report
The Report itself rewards careful reading. Rorris draws on a decade of local and international evidence that shows modern facilities with good lighting, temperature and acoustic controls and appropriate furniture affect learning opportunities and student outcomes.
THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT FOR STATE AID TO
PRIVATE SCHOOLS HAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
Private school funding shows ‘neglect’ of public students
February 03, 2021
A new report has shown that federal funding for private schools continues to grow at a faster rate than for public schools.
‘To those who have, more will be given’: Largesse to private schools continues
How the Catholic school system takes from the poor to give to the rich
| RECURRENT FUNDING OF SELECT VICTORIAN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | |||||||
|
MELBOURNE PRIVATE SCHOOL FEES 2019 |
SUBURB |
YEAR 8 |
YEAR 10 |
YEAR 12 |
|
Geelong Grammar School |
CORIO |
$34,120 |
$41,260 |
$41,260 |
|
Mount Scopus Memorial College |
Trevor Cobbold / June 30, 2020 /
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS
New Method of Assessing Financial Need of Private Schools Has Major Flaws
Report on Governmnt Services 2020 details growing funding gap between public and private schools
The 2020 Report on Government Services (RoGS) showed that non-government school funding per student grew by 3.3 times faster than public school funding per student in the last decade, a gap that has widened further in the last year.
Government funding for public schools has grown by only 11 per cent over the last ten years, whereas government funding for private schools has grown by 35 per cent.
The Real Cost of Private Education
By
Thomas Orren
In Episode 10 of the second series of Ahn Do’s ‘Brush with Fame’, he painted and interviewed the wonderful plastic surgeon Fiona Wood. When talking about her early life, Ahn pointed out that Woods’ mother had enrolled her in a private school, because she said she wanted her to have the, “best education possible.”
THE AFFORDABILITY OF PRIVATE SCHOOL EDUCATION IN OCTOBER 2019
Prime Minister Morrison must answer for public school capital-funding injustice
16 August 2019
The Morrison Government must justify why it provides any funding at all for elite private schools, in light of My School data showing that the four richest elite private schools in Australia received more Commonwealth capital funding than 1800 other schools combined.
Rich school, poor school: Australia’s great education divide
By Inga Ting, Alex Palmer and Nathanael Scott
Updated 14 Aug 2019, 11:11am
Published 13 Aug 2019, 5:05am
Spending on education in Australia increased nearly 80% between 2000 and 2015. from shutterstock.com
July 24, 2019 6.02am AEST
Research Director, Australian Council for Educational Research
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES DETERMINED BY POSTCODE
In a new analysis, Macquarie University researchers have found that the area in which a student goes to school is one of the clearest predictors of year 5 NAPLAN reading scores, painting a stark picture of Australia's socioeducational divide.
"The results are confronting," said Crichton Smith, the study's lead author and a PhD candidate at Macquarie University.
Friday November 30, 2018
This article is a summary of a new Education Research Brief published by Save Our Schools. The Brief can be downloaded below.
Tuesday October 23, 2018
The following is a summary of a new Education Research paper published by Save Our Schools. It can be downloaded below.
Wednesday March 14, 2018
NSW Public Schools Benefit Under Gonski 1.0
Save Our Schools :Trevor Cobbold
Wednesday February 21, 2018
Public schools were the main beneficiaries of the Gonski 1.0 funding plan in NSW.
NSW Public Schools Benefit Under Gonski 1.0
Save Our Schools :Trevor Cobbold
Wednesday February 21, 2018
Public schools were the main beneficiaries of the Gonski 1.0 funding plan in NSW.
Trevor Cobbold from Save Our Schools
Monday February 12, 2018
Wealth of the Catholic Church in Australia exceeds $30 billion
An Age investigation reveals for the first time the value of the Catholic Church’s wealth in Australia and raises serious questions about compensation payments to victims of child sex abuse.
Tuesday January 30, 2018
This is a summary of a new Education Policy Brief published by Save Our Schools. It can be downloaded below.
RISING SCHOOL COSTS RITUAL JANUARY 2018:
There is a ritual in Australian media reports on education. It is January, so it is ‘Back to School’ commentary and time for the ‘Rising Costs’ ritual. Right on time, the Murdoch Press obliges, with information on the rising costs of private – and ‘free’ public education for parents.
Trevor Cobbold provides Facts and Figures:
State Aid to Private Schools is Disastrous Public Policy
Trevor Cobbold of Save Our Schools continues, valiantly, to expose the funding follies with public funding of private education.
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
Paying for Public Education: A Revenue and NOT a Spending Problem
Recent trends in school recurrent funding strongly suggest that over 40 per cent of students in Catholic schools next year will average as much, if not more, public funding than their peers in similar government schools. Two years further on an additional 40 per cent will most likely join them. Half the students in Independent schools are on track to get as much, if not more, than government school students by the end of the decade.
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FROM SAVE OUR SCHOOLS at http://www.saveourschools.com.au/funding/massive-increases-in-govt-funding-for-private-schools
Massive Increases in Govt Funding for Private Schools
Monday February 16, 2015
Wednesday January 28, 2015
New school funding figures provided to Senate Estimates show that government funding increases for Catholic and Independent schools have outstripped funding increases for public schools since 2009. The percentage increase in funding for Catholic and Independent schools was almost double that for public schools despite the fact that public schools enrol the overwhelming majority of students in need of increased support.
COMPANIES SHOULD PAY TAX FOR OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEMS, NOT CAPTURE THEM FOR PROFITEERING
Our politicians in Canberra are chanting the mantra, ‘Funding is not the problem’ .
Rubbish!
Proper Funding of Public Education does matter.
There are two reasons why Public Education in Australia faces a funding crisis.
See Research by Barbara Preston at
http://theconversation.com/state-school-kids-do-better-at-uni-29155
See how the Abbott/Hockey Budget cuts to Gonski funding will rip $2.67
billion away from public schools at
http://www.aeufederal.org.au/Publications/2014/McMorrowjune2014.pdf
17.06.2014
From Save our Schools Australia website at http://www.saveourschools.com.au/funding/school-money-wars
The claim that there has been a huge increase in government funding of schools over the past decade or more while school outcomes have declined is highly misleading. The increase in funding was relatively small and there have been some significant improvements in school outcomes.
See http://www.saveourschools.com.au/funding/wealthy-private-schools-walk-aw...
February 16 2012: The general public and taxpayers are outraged at the upper-middle class welfare involved in taxpayer funding of wealthy private schools.
DOGS have always said that they had to be paid off to cement the unholy alliance between Protestant and Catholic schools in the 1970s. Now they have to be paid off to enable insecure middle class parents to have choice. The following research from Trevor Cobbold of Save Our Schools illustrates the level of direct grants enjoyed by these schools. His figures do not include the taxation expenditures involved in taxation exemptions.
Increases in 2010 tuition fees at key private schools. Australian Financial Review 5-6 December 2009
Comparison of Howard Government Recurrent Funding of Government V Non-Government Schools 2006/2007 And 2007/2008
Number of Non Government Schools by Affiliation: Source: DEST
DOGS wish to congratulate the Australian Education Union for their analysis of the Federal Budget Papers 2006 on their website at www.aeufederal.org.au "Funding for Schools and VET."
The following is a list of the thirteen Justices appointed to the High Court since 1980.
"History has a very important economic aspect. One of the dangers of subsidizing religious institutions and granting them financial privileges ( such as exemption from income tax, land and municipal rates, sales and other taxes) is that such Institutions tend to become extremely wealthy to aggrandize and to become States within a State.
Private Schools Threaten "Goulburn Closure" Blackmail. Saving To Taxpayers Of $2.4 Billion Not A Cost Of $4.2 Billion
Although it now costs the taxpayer more to run many private church schools and church school systems than to fund a first class public school system, the old chesnut that private church schools save money and the public system collapse if they are not given the funding they demand to provide the privileged with further privileges, we are once again being threatened with a "flood" of private school children enrolled in public education.
In the 1960s DOGS predicted that the trickling stream of State Aid to church schools would end in a raging flood.
The latest facts and figures have been produced by the AEU's Response to the Australian Government's 'School Funding - the Facts'
State Aid was re-introduced as a result of political blackmail. Whatever was given in one year was a prelude to the demands for the next year and following years. A little whetted the appetite for much more. In the opening phases, modest amounts were sought. Deference became preference and now preference has become near monopoly. The Church has truly invaded the Public Treasury. Public funds are open to plunder. The group with the most supporters, the largest political lobby, and the greatest political power, has and will be best able to exploit the public treasury for what it chooses to call education.
Before State Aid was introduced again in the Twentieth Century, the opponents of State Aid declared that "public money to private schools encourages division amongst children based on social, economic, class, and particularisms such as colour, country, ethnicity, and creed. It was clearly stated that the increase in State Aid would divide children along the lines of divisions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Children have been divided by colour and within colour.
As predicted by the D.O.G.S. the percentage share of federal funding received by public education has declined significantly. The following table clearly indicates that in the first year of federal funding public education received 73.7% of federal funding. If the latest States Grants Bill in 2000 is passed, it is predicted that in the year 2003/2004 public school percentage share of federal funding will decline to 32.2%. One should remember that the percentage share of pupil population in government schools for 1999 was 69.9%.
State Aid has brought about the decline of the percentage share of pupils in the public systems throughout Australia - as it was intended to do by the major beneficiary.
Below is a table, by decades of the percentage share of public education of school children. (1901-1999)
The Following Figures Illustrate The Result Of Favoured Funding Of Private Schools By The Kennett Government During The Period 1992 To 1999