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		<title>The Shocker: &#8216;Funding Maintained&#8217; Maintained</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post focused on the big positive coming out of the Gonski Review – the recommendation that students from disadvantaged backgrounds should attract extra funding. This post turns to a deeply disappointing aspect of the Review, one that, if implemented, will mitigate against efforts to tackle disadvantage in our schools. It was the phrase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=918&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Win: Loadings for Disadvantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my mind, the Gonksi report is a very mixed bag. However, the unambiguous positive is the recommendation that students from disadvantaged backgrounds should receive extra funding over and above the schools resource standard. If implemented, small schools, remote schools, low-SES students, indigenous students and students with low-English proficiency will all attract significant extra funding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=898&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please send one last message to the PM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Gonski Review to be released on Monday the 20th of February, it&#8217;s crucial that we keep up the pressure on the Labour Government to deliver. Please go to the For Our Future site and send one last email to the PM. You can send the form message or add your own. And please [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=853&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaked Submission Reveals Gross Inequity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publication by The Australian of a previously confidential submission to the Gonski Review has shone light on the extent of inequity in our schools &#8211; and how existing Government funding policies have exacerbated it. From Opportunity to Outcomes was commissioned by all State Governments except NSW and authored by the impeccably credentialled Professor Richard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=827&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review to be released in February</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Public Schools For Our Future campaign reports: The Minister for School Education Peter Garrett has announced that the final report of the Gonski funding review will be delivered to the Federal Government this month and released after school returns in 2012. This timing only increases the importance of campaigning activities For Our Future has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=802&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schools Funding Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Public Schools For Our Future campaign has called a National Day of Action for this Tuesday November 15. With the Schools Funding Review reporting in December, it&#8217;s the last chance to make your voice heard. You can email the Schools Funding Review here. There&#8217;s a form message you can send but we know emails [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=779&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November 15: National Day of Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Education Union has declared November 15 a national day of action. It&#8217;s our last chance to remind the schools funding review that we want a better deal for public education, a better deal for every child. Find our more at the For Our Future site and in the video below.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=770&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MySchool Data Reveals Massive Inequity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from Save Our School&#8217;s Trevor Cobbold, Inequity, Disadvantage and Education Outcomes, reveals massive inequality in educational outcomes in Australian schools. The average literacy and numeracy results of Year 9 students in low SES government schools are lower than, or only just match, those of Year 5 students in high SES government and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=763&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real reform in schools funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report commissioned by the Australian Education Union and authored by Dr Jim McMorrow outlines what needs to be done to fix our broken schools funding system.  achieving a mature partnership between Commonwealth and State governments putting public schooling back at the centre of national priorities and agreement  adopting national target resource standards for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=758&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Submission on Research Commissioned for Funding Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Greenwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Chair, Thank you for the opportunity to again make a submission and, more generally, for the thorough consultation the Review panel has engaged in over the last year. This submission focuses on some of the implications of the The Nous Group consortium report, ‘Schooling challenges and opportunities’, for the following elements of the Terms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fundingequity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17054841&amp;post=755&amp;subd=fundingequity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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