School funding
Report
Choice and fairness: a common framework for all Australian schools
This publication puts forward a proposal from the Australian Learning Lecture to create a new equitable framework of how to fund and regulate Australian schools.
Report
GST distribution and state investment needs
This paper explains how the Commission assesses state investment needs by using schools investment as an example. It provides a step-by-step guide to the assessment method, and highlights the influence of user-populations and what states collectively spend on infrastructure types.
Report
Review of Effective Enrolment: final report
This review report aims to provide options on alternative methodologies to allocate a funding pool to schools based on student numbers, as part of the broader School Resourcing Model allocation.
Discussion paper
Ensuring choice: a mechanism to control non-government school fees
Australia has one of the highest proportions of students enrolled in non-government schools in the OECD. Over the last decade, fees at independent schools have risen by over 50% nationwide - far outstripping both inflation and wage growth, and creating an affordability crisis for families across Australia. This paper outlines some possible solutions for greater...
Working paper
Labor's Gonski model: the national plan for school improvement
This working paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Gonski funding model by the Labor Government in 2013. It analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the model.