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May 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda One of the architects of the Gonski school funding reforms says an independent resourcing body must be set up now or the government risks losing the private schooling sector’s faith.
Ken Boston, who was on the panel led by David Gonski which undertook the first major review of school funding in 40 years, said no one had yet opposed the underpinning principles of the proposal.
But he warned that opposition could come, particularly if the independent schools sector felt it was being cut out of negotiations.
“The time has now come for the establishment of the specialist independent national schools resourcing body … to continue to consult with governments and the non-government sector and to seek to broker the new arrangements,” he told a forum organised by the Australian Education Union in Canberra on Wednesday.
“(This would) give the non-government sector a capacity to be part of the deal rather than feel they have to walk away because they find the numbers aren’t suiting them.”
The Gonski review, released in February, recommended that all schools regardless of sector be funded on the same model.
It said funding should be allocated based on needs of students, with permanent loadings given to address disadvantage and disability.
It estimated the proposals would cost at least an extra $5 billion a year but federal, state and territory governments have yet to commit any extra money.
Current funding arrangements run out at the end of 2013.
Dr Boston told the forum, which included federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett, that his call was sparked partly by the NSW Association of Independent Schools this week arguing for a deferment of any funding reform because it was unable to get the answers to what he said were “perfectly legitimate questions”.
“It’s in the interests of all parties that an independent national schools resourcing body, at arms’ length from all governments … should now step in to assist the public, Catholic and independent sectors to find the devil in the detail,” he said.
Mr Garrett told the forum the technical work to define the details needed for the reforms was happening in the background.
“It’s not work that grabs the headlines but it’s work that is being done,” he said.
He reiterated Labor’s commitment to introduce legislation for the reforms by the end of the year.
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