The public school teachers’ union has accused the Andrews government of cutting funding to state schools amid a teaching crisis that is causing havoc in classrooms.
Despite an increase in overall expenditure, high inflation and student population growth have combined to deliver state schools an effective funding cut this year, according to a state budget analysis by the Australian Education Union .
The state budget includes a 5.8 per cent increase in total school funding in 2023-24 to $14.03 billion. State schools will get $12.66 billion of that, while the remainder will go to Catholic and independent schools.But once the budget’s 7 per cent inflation rate and a projected 1.65 per cent increase in enrolment this year is factored in, the public system faces an effective 2.7 per cent funding cut, the union’s analysis shows.
University of Melbourne education policy expert Associate Professor Glenn Savage said funding inequities in the Victorian school system meant parents were implicitly being told to send their children to private schools. Savage said that in a climate where state governments were struggling to increase funding to the public school system, a 2.7 per cent shortfall could be significant.Under the school funding formula, state governments are responsible for 80 per cent of funding for government schools and 20 per cent funding for non-government schools. Those responsibilities are reversed in the non-government system, for which the Commonwealth funds 80 per cent.
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