Public vs private education
Apr. 23rd, 2004 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyNow this is interesting. I've seen debate over the extent to which the government ought to fund public schools, with some saying they should be given the equivalent funding as a public school, others saying they shouldn't receive government funding at all. Anyway, this news item is the first time I leaned that private schools receive proportionately more funding than public schools:
Claim $3bn needed to put public schools on the level
"The state education ministers argue that rich private schools charging $15,000 in annual fees receive 13.7 per cent of the cost of educating a student in a public school. Primary students in public schools receive from the Federal Government 8.9 per cent of this formula, while high school students receive 10 per cent. [...] The ministers will push [the Federal education minister] to recognise in the federal funding formula that it costs more money to educate students in highly disadvantaged communities and that most poor students attend public schools. Public schools have twice as many disabled students, three times more Aboriginal students and more than twice as many children at remote schools. Twenty per cent of the 2200 public schools in NSW are classified as disadvantaged, compared with the national average of 16 per cent."
If the state ministers' figures are correct, the poor are subsidising the education of the rich.
Claim $3bn needed to put public schools on the level
"The state education ministers argue that rich private schools charging $15,000 in annual fees receive 13.7 per cent of the cost of educating a student in a public school. Primary students in public schools receive from the Federal Government 8.9 per cent of this formula, while high school students receive 10 per cent. [...] The ministers will push [the Federal education minister] to recognise in the federal funding formula that it costs more money to educate students in highly disadvantaged communities and that most poor students attend public schools. Public schools have twice as many disabled students, three times more Aboriginal students and more than twice as many children at remote schools. Twenty per cent of the 2200 public schools in NSW are classified as disadvantaged, compared with the national average of 16 per cent."
If the state ministers' figures are correct, the poor are subsidising the education of the rich.
