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Budget betrays public school students09 May 2007By Maree O’Halloran NSW Teachers Federation President Public school and TAFE College students are betrayed in Peter Costello's twelfth budget which provides no real increase in funding to public education. The Federal Government's education priorities are completely wrong and deliberately misguided. With a record surplus, the Federal Government has chosen to bypass the 2.3 million students in public schools and the 1.3 million in TAFE colleges across Australia. Only public education is open and available to all students regardless of family background, faith and level of income. Over the next five years public schools will only receive an increase of $300 million. Private schools will be given almost six times as much - $1.7 billion. The Federal Coalition Government has exponentially increased per student funding to private schools since 1996. For every one dollar of direct federal expenditure per public school student, the Federal Government spent approximately the following on a private school student:
These increases are clear policy directions not enrolment changes. Public schools need an extra $2.9 billion in recurrent annual funding from federal and state governments (MCEETYA report). The Federal Government has ignored this shortfall and the problems arising from chronic under funding (other than state-based indexation for schools). Early childhood has also missed out in this budget. There are also no increases for TAFE. Instead of systematic funding the Treasurer, Peter Costello has put forward gimmicks and failed "incentive" schemes. These include:
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