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The Australian Education Union (AEU) has made a renewed push for governments to urgently address public school underfunding following the extension of current bilateral agreements until 2025.
Weeks after the National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) review called for “urgent and critical” action to fully fund the government sector, education ministers agreed to delay arrangements for the 2024 school year to negotiate the long-term funding of schools.
At the end of October, all governments were told by the expert panel they established that fully funding public schools was urgent and a critical prerequisite for improving student learning and wellbeing. Yet only weeks later, education ministers signed agreements for 2024 that deliver no increase in the commonwealth share of the SRS and either no increase in the state and territory shares or very small increases.
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