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Outrage over Dizdar’s comments reveals depth of education’s vested interests

We have set up a two-class system that is bad for our country and its educational outcomes

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Too many high-fee private schools are failing to deliver adequate academic results for their students.

Sydney’s wealthiest schools growing further out of reach

The city’s middle-class families, already hit by rising costs of living, face another nasty shock as our high-fee private schools increase the costs of entry.

  • The Herald's View
New board appointments: David Borger, Bob Debus, Cathy Foley and Bob Carr.

Who’s in, who’s out as Labor figures head cultural leadership shake-up

ALP veterans head a list of 10 new prestigious appointments to the state’s leading galleries and museums.

  • Linda Morris
Bob Carr looking happy.

Bob Carr makes history with new Sydney appointment

The former premier will chair the board of the Museums of History NSW. Meanwhile, an ex-Liberal leader gets a spot on the NSW Art Gallery board.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
About 40 per cent of Australian enrolments are in non-government schools.

Blaming private schools for the underfunding of state schools is nonsense

Australia has far more private schools than most other countries in the OECD, so it is not surprising we spend more money on them.

  • David Hastie
Corrie Perkin in Sorrento.

Upstart writers festival aiming to take Melbourne’s mantle

This week’s Melbourne Writers Festival will hope to capture the same success as the Sorrento Writers Festival held last month.

  • Stephen Brook
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Lesson in inequity

Whether it is Scottish castle libraries, plunge pools, executive trips to Henley regattas or the latest comparison between the obscene amount of money spent by a few private schools on capital works and entire state school funding, it is clear that the current funding model is failing students.

Cap in hand.

The private schools with the richest parents in Australia revealed

About $1.3 billion, or a quarter of all overfunding for private schools, is flowing to those where family income exceeds $200,000 a year. See the schools here.

  • Sherryn Groch
Education Minister Jason Clare.

How one state deal reignited Australia’s school funding wars

States have rejected millions of dollars in extra Commonwealth money for public schools as they push for twice as much cash as WA agreed to.

  • Sherryn Groch and Robyn Grace
In Australia, the states are meant to cover 80 per cent of public school funding and 20 per cent of Catholic and private.

The accounting tricks shortchanging public schools billions of dollars every year

Coalition-era loopholes let the states underfund public schools, leaving them a long way off Gonski minimum standards - and Victoria is one of the worst.

  • Sherryn Groch

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