Gonski’s $319b reforms fail to improve school performance: PC
The Productivity Commission says that four years into a 10-year, $319 billion injection of additional funding into schools, academic performance is still declining, including among the disadvantaged students whose prospects the system was designed to advance.
A terse interim report ahead of the next national agreement between the federal, state and territory governments, says historically high funding must be matched by improvements in student engagement and academic performance against national and international benchmarks.
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