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submitted 6 days ago by brisk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Yesterday Queensland became the last state in Australia to sign on to the decade-long Better and Fairer Schools Agreement (BFSA) with the Commonwealth.

It means every state is on track to hit the minimum funding levels recommended all those years ago.

But exactly when those levels will be reached, what was agreed to in order to land the deal and the other basic terms have not been released, leading to calls for greater transparency (more on that later).

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[-] Kayel@aussie.zone 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The only mention of a political party is 'the coalition have promised to continue funding'.

No mention the reason it's been underfunded is the Libs and it's been both state and federal labor who have made these changes.

One month from an election

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Did we read the same article?

They talk about the minister for education, there's a photo of Albo, there's heaps of ALP credit.

I'm just happy they got it through before the election.

I don't really get from the article whether its just Queensland thats the lagard, and now they're also on the gonski reform path but will be behind everyone else, or whether the other jurisdictions had to wait for Queensland, and now gonski can be implemented in all States at the same time?

[-] Minarble@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago

This is actually a major achievement… Quite the contrast here between Australian government doing all it can to support education of its people and the Trump administration doing everything in its power yo destroy it.

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