This research paper, written by Emeritus Professor Alan Reid from the University of South Australia, describes: Australia’s inequitable schooling system and explains how this has happened The consequences of having inadequate resources for children in need, the majority of whom are in public schools The need for Australia to support, nurture and strengthen our public...

Australia’s school funding system keeps shifting resources towards non-government schools, and the argument that this saves public money is looking even shakier

This report shows how funding has changed and how familiar claims about the relative cost of schools have become obsolete and misleading. It addresses questions that arise about our schools: what is public, what is private, what should be the difference between them, what obligations do and should fully-funded schools have to the public which...

Introduction This report provides you with a detailed stock-take of the current system for funding school-age education in New Zealand. At a high level, the stock-take is organised around the key policy questions that underpin a schooling funding system. We could consider each of these policy questions to progressively and systematically review schooling funding: Choices...

This review examines the spectrum of evidence on the impact of school autonomy on student academic achievement, and the features of autonomy that improve or constrain achievement, and discusses the implications of these findings for future policy.