Saturday 22 September 2018

Funding reality

Despite both Ed Minister David Kemp and John Howard claiming in 1999 that increased public funding would be used by non-government schools to keep their fees down, their fees continued to increase in real terms along with their public funding.

January 2017, Sydney's private school fees had soared by up to 20 per cent over the past four years, with some parents being charged more than $35,000 a year despite record levels of public funding. 

Morrison, Tehan, you are talking nonsense.

Far from using their generous public funding from government to lower fees, all the evidence suggests that private schools have instead used it to enable the diversion of more of the revenue they collect from parent fees towards spending on buildings, grounds and facilities.


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