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April 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Funding major reform of the national school system could be a problem for the states and territories, the NSW Education Minister says.
Education ministers from around the country met in Sydney on Thursday to discuss an overhaul proposed by the federal government’s Gonski Review.
All states declared a commitment to a “road map” of future work for a new student-centric schooling model.
But NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said locating funding for a new model, valued by Mr Gonski at $5 billion, was an issue for most states.
“There are problems still to be sorted out, particularly around funding,” he told reporters outside the meeting in Sydney.
“NSW and other states have limited capacity in terms of raising revenues.”
If existing funding arrangements are maintained 70 per cent of the cash injection would come from states and territories.
“I don’t think any states are in particularly glamorous positions.”
Federal Education Minister Peter Garrett said it was not the time to be putting dollar figures on the reforms.
“Let’s not continue to get caught in a debate about how long is it going to be before you see what the dollar figure is.”
Mr Garrett said his department would aim to have a piece of legislation drawn up by the end of the year but warned there was a “great deal of work” to do.
“What we need to do now is to ensure that we can agree and work through a proposed funding model.
“Once we’ve done that work then we’ll consider issues of resources and funding as we should.”
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