Fully fund public schools! #insiders

abc.net.au/news/2023-08-2…

Melbourne schools: Experts call for school zone overhaul to factor in travel distance theage.com.au/national/victo…

Hundreds of students face a deadly gauntlet getting to and from an inner-city high school as they navigate a dangerous road amid calls for urgent safety upgrades ⁦Herald Sun⁩ ⁦SaferMurrayRd🚴‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️⁩ heraldsun.com.au/leader/coburg-…

“If you start around schools and make safe walking and cycling routes to that school, then you build a community and then it’s much cheaper actually to make safe infrastructure in that small community than build a whole new separated bike lane somewhere.” theage.com.au/national/victo…

Former public school students speak out on the dangers of adequate funding for public schools.

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Five private schools spent as much on new facilities in one year as 3,000 Australian public schools theguardian.com/australia-news…

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Hence the intractable, entrenched, inequitable two speed education set up in Australia. Majority of politicians are of it and for it. Makes the powerful and embedded Catholic and Independent school system lobbyists almost superfluous

Why we chose to send our children to public school | Dellaram Vreeland theguardian.com/australia-news…

Three of Australia’s wealthiest private schools got double the federal funding they were entitled to last year | Australian education | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-news…

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Things they can do: overfund rich private schools. Things they can’t do: fully fund public schools… #ForEveryChild

Some things seem to never change. Inequity imbedded in govt.

Jason Clare MP Ok…that’s nice….pat on the back… but let’s get Victoria sorted. You may need to drag them kicking and screaming to the table but do it before they spend too much more money on private schools!

Australia’s education system is a mess due to inadequate funding and severe imbalance between public and private schools. If there’s any point at all to a Labor Government it should be doing a root and branch overhaul of the system. Imagine AUKUS was scrapped and schools funded.

And then this out later on Friday night: premier.vic.gov.au/boost-victoria… Shocking that non-gov schools can double dip from both State and Fed for infrastructure funding while public schools don’t have the basics. School funding inequity is baked in by both levels of Australian Labor

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GOOD!! 💪🏽 “Teachers furious at a state government plan to underfund public schools for another six years will take to the streets in a mass protest … as a parliamentary inquiry is launched into the growing scandal.” theage.com.au/politics/victo…