The 2011 Gonski report was aimed at cleaning up Australia’s convoluted and opaque school funding system, as well as establishing an needs-based funding model.
It proposed to introduce a “base rate” level of funding per student, known as the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS), alongside extra loadings based equity considerations.
However, the former Labor Government failed to implement the reforms, instead providing special deals with individual jurisdictions and assuring that no school would lose a cent in funding.
