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Education funding is unfair — and public schools asking parents to chip in makes it worse

  • Written by Anna Hogan, Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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We have estimated around $8 billion of non-government or private funding flows through Australia’s school system each year — both public and private. The vast majority of this comes from school fees. The rest is from “other private sources”, including donations and community fund-raising.

Unsurprisingly, the...

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