School funding
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- Education
We learnt how much funding NSW schools receive: What does yours get?
Top selective schools James Ruse and North Sydney Boys benefited from parent contributions upwards of $2000 per student. Search our table to see how your school fares.
- Christopher Harris
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Queensland investing less in state school students than every other state, except Victoria
Queensland students have been receiving thousands of dollars less in state government funding than their interstate counterparts, data reveals.
- Marissa Calligeros
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- Health
This program is helping girls stay in school, but NSW students are missing out
NSW is the only state that doesn’t fund endometriosis and pain workshops for public school students despite research revealing one in four girls miss classes due to period pain.
- Emily Kaine and Angus Thomson
The 100 most expensive Melbourne public schools revealed
Parents at some public schools are paying thousands more in voluntary fees than parents at schools in other areas.
- Alex Crowe
The WA electorates where private schools are fronting the fight against funding cuts
Independent Schools Australia named the two WA federal seats in a list of 17 across Australia with a significant proportion of independent school families living within their boundaries that will become focus areas for their new campaign.
- Holly Thompson
Private schools lobby vows federal election fight over ‘class-war rhetoric’
Seventeen seats have been designated “ground zero” in a campaign to pressure major parties to shore up billions of dollars in public funding.
- Bridie Smith
Victorian public school students get nation’s least funding from government
The state’s schools received thousands of dollars less per student than those in every other state and territory, according to data that also exposes the income gap between the public and private sectors.
- Alex Crowe
‘No place for it’: Schools get millions to fix bad behaviour in classrooms
The money will flow to Queensland state schools as soon as next week, but the teachers union says it falls “well short” of what’s needed.
- Catherine Strohfeldt
- Analysis
- WA election
Is this WA’s education election? The influx of promises suggests so
Students across WA are back at school, and the state’s politicians have recognised the timing is right to push out their education election promises worth billions of dollars.
- Holly Thompson
Victorian state schools to get $2.5 billion boost as ‘tortuous’ wrangling ends
The funding deal between the state and Commonwealth ends an 18-month stand-off.
- Noel Towell and Caroline Schelle
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