Unrelenting school lobby
‘Needs based [school] funding is used as a proxy for arguments for more funding.’ Indeed it is, and I never thought that I would read these words from a Minister for Education. Senator Simon Birmingham spoke these words on 15 March this year.
Ever so politely, the minister was telling his audience of school administrators that the ideology of equity, which flows through every pore of the education industry’s thick hide, was hollow and abused by the industry to fill its pockets.
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