The initial Gonski report from 2011 was intended to clean up Australia’s opaque and confusing school funding structure, as well as to build a new needs-based funding model.
This was to be accomplished by instituting a “base rate” level of financing per student known as the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS), with additional loadings added on top based on a variety of equity characteristics.
Instead, the former Labor Government sabotaged the execution by striking special deals with several jurisdictions and promising that no school would lose money as a result of the scheme.
