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Gonski the game-changer. Above: Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaking at the release of the Gonski report. Photo: Alan Porritt/ AAP Image THIS was always going to be a big year in education and it doesn’t get much bigger than the release of the report of the Review of Funding for Schooling, known as the Gonski review. We’ve had reviews and reports before but this one has changed the debate, perhaps forever.
Gonski’s release hasn’t been the only news about schools so far this year. We had a panic over NAPLAN (the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) in January, with various players distributing explanations, alarm and blame for our apparent lack of progress. Then along came a nicely timed OECD report on equity and quality in education, which had the effect of supporting Gonski’s focus on similar themes. Finally, towards the end of February, came the release of the Gonski recommendations, accompanied by a flurry of coverage cut short by Labor’s leadership circus.
Reforming schools: an inside job. Gonski’s review: another salvo in the Hundred Years’ War. Above: David Gonski speaking at the release of his report on school funding in Canberra this week. Photo: Alan Porritt/ AAP Image SINCE the grand Karmel/Whitlam settlement of 1973, money for schools has come from three different sources and gone in three different mixes to three different categories of school. In two of these categories large numbers of parents pay significant amounts of money; in the third even larger numbers pay very little or nothing at all.
Around these peculiar arrangements every religion, every state/territory government, and the best-organised unions in the country engage in a modern version of the Hundred Years’ War, their chronic enmities flaring from time to time into open hostilities, fighting always under banners of high principle, The Common Good, Freedom of Choice, Parents’ Rights, the Fair Go and, of course, Equality of Opportunity, the antagonists all swearing ultimate allegiance to Our Children’s and Our Nation’s Future. Related articles.