A new funding arrangement for schools passed by federal parliament in the early hours of Friday morning has failed to mollify the concerns of state and Catholic schools.
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The federal government made many concessions to the funding program, known as Gonski 2.0, to gain the support of cross-bench MPs, but both the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEU) and the Australian Education Union (AEU) said the new deal was still not good enough.
The new national deal, which covers a six-year period instead of the 10-year period proposed earlier in the week, will cost the government an extra $5 billion.
However the NCEU said it only reduced the loss of funding to Catholic schools from $4.6 billion to $3.1 billion.
The AEU said the funding deal did not deliver a national needs-based funding model and many public schools would have to wait at least six more years to get enough resources to ensure no child missed out.
Member for Wannon Dan Tehan has argued the new deal will increase funding to schools but the NCEU countered the increase will not cover the cost of inflation in the education sector over the next six years.
The deal continues the arrangement where the federal government provides 80 per cent of the funding for Catholic and independent schools and the state government provides 80 per cent of the funding to government schools.
This means the funding increases for Catholic and independent schools are much higher than those for government schools.
Figures for the funding increases in the next calendar year that the new deal will provide to a number of south-west regional schools are:
Warrnambool College, $207,300; Brauer Secondary College, $110,900; Emmanuel College, $461,400, Camperdown College, $42,000; Mercy Regional College, $203,200; Mortlake P-12, $38,600; Baimbridge College, Hamilton, $75,000; Hamilton and Alexandra College, $159,800.