emjaycee
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It costs less to hand out $8M per year to a private school (99% are primary + secondary), than maintain school grounds, upgrade facilities and pay wages for 50 - 100 staff. Do the math and then tell me its abhorrent.
It's the conservative way of thinking and you are part of their cheer squad - yet you object ?
Cut subsidies and make parents pay $65k a year (up from $35-45k) and they all flock back to the public system. The whole private health debate / private schools have interchangeable arguments.
Not sure about any State Govt subsidisation, however the Federal Govt subsidy in 2014 was a base per student of:
Primary
$9,271.00
Secondary
$12,193.00
Primary (distance education student)
$3,244.85
Secondary (distance education student)
$4,267.55
These amounts are indexed each year by 3.6%.
St Margaret Mary's Primary at Merrylands gets 89.71% of this per student.
St Michaels Primary at Baulkham Hills gets 60% of this per student.
SCEGGS at Darlinghurst gets 20% of this per student.
Public schools get 100% of it.
Government schools receive the majority of their public funding from their state or territory government, with the Australian Government providing supplementary funding. Non-government schools receive the majority of their public funding from the Australian Government with state and territory governments providing supplementary funding.
2017 RAM implementation
2017 represents the fourth year of additional Gonski/NERA funding to NSW public schools through the RAM methodology.
In 2017, the base component will be a streamlined package of operational funding, with multiple line items rolled into a single allocation. This will give schools increased operational flexibility and allow them to focus on the priority of teaching and learning by reducing red tape.
So demountables and aircon issues aren't really replaceable by removal of the Federal Govt. subsidy when it is the responsibility of the State Govt. to fund these things.