Thread by @AGavrielatos

Naming and shaming schools - a policy failure. ⁦⁦@SOSAust⁩

Another one for the we-told-you-so-file.

Here’s a novel idea.

Fund every school at its minimum Schooling Resource Standard.

#EverySchoolEveryChild

Courtesy of the Berejiklian and Morrison Govts public schools in 2023 will be at 92 per cent of the SRS -the minimum level of resourcing required to educate all students to a high level, with no path in sight to get to 100% of the SRS. Private schools will be at 106% of the SRS.

However, its not even 92%.
The figure is inflated by the Fed Govt’s decision to allow the State Govt to inflate its SRS value by 4% through the inclusion of capital depreciation costs and the recurrent funding of NESA - both absent from the SRS calculation for private schools.

This inflation of the state’s SRS position is denying students in NSW public schools $3.5 billion in funding over the six year life of the agreement.
The reality is that the NSW Government is only providing 67.4 per cent of the SRS this year.

Combined with the inadequate contribution of the Morrison Government, NSW public schools will only be funded at 88 per cent of their required minimum resourcing level in 2023.

The shortfall in funding that year will be $1.9 billion. In cumulative terms, NSW public schools are projected to receive $8 billion less between 2020 and 2023 than they would if they were resourced at their minimum Schooling Resourcing Standard.

#EverySchoolEveryChild - not!