The Australian Education Union (AEU) has demanded Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s full commitment to leadership and teaching in schools, following the release of this submission to the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools.

This AEU inquiry submission argues that a significant shortfall of federal funding for public schools will magnify the stark disadvantages and under-resourcing that already disproportionately threaten regional, rural and remote public schools around Australia.

This report was commissioned by the Australian Education Union to examine the economic case in favour of the full implementation of the school funding reforms outlined by the Review of School Funding (Gonski Review).

Devolution in the context of education, essentially concerns the distribution of power and funding between governments and schools and structural changes in the governance, management and financing of schools. This paper finds there is no evidence that devolution - in its myriad forms - has, in itself, led to improved student achievement.

Public schools face a real cut of over $670 million a year unless the Federal Government substantially lifts its investment in public education, argues this report. This report finds that: Public schools will receive $673 million less in real terms in 2015/16 than they did in the last financial year (2011/12). That is a 12...