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No class divide in schools spending
Justine Ferrari, Education writer From: The Australian March 04, 2011 12:00AM
Source: The Australian
PRIVATE schools spend about the same amount of money teaching their students as government schools, with the first national figures on school finances revealing the extra money raised in private fees is spent on buildings, sporting grounds and other facilities.
Details of the financial resources available to the nation's 9500 schools will be published for the first time on the My School website today.
They show a wide disparity in the money spent in individual schools, ranging from $3000 a student up to $150,000 for a special needs pupil.
The funds, analysed on the site, are drawn from a variety of sources including government funding, both state and federal, school fees and other private sources.
However, the schools spending the most money are not the elite, high-fee private schools but mostly government schools in remote areas, those with fewer than 100 students or teaching students with disabilities.
The schools spending the least amount of money are mainly low-fee independent schools.
An analysis of the financial data conducted by auditing firm Deloitte for the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority says 90 per cent of students across the nation attend a school spending between $7400 and $18,800 on each student.
About half the students attend a school that spends between $7400 and $10,800 while 39 per cent have between $10,800 and $18,800 spent on them.
The Deloitte analysis, released yesterday by School Education Minister Peter Garrett, shows that Catholic schools spend the least per student running their schools, an average of $10,000.
Independent schools allocate only $2600 more for each student on average than government schools, which spend about $11,100 a student. The biggest difference in school spending between the three sectors is in capital works, with independent schools spending about 3 1/2 times more than government schools and almost twice as much as Catholic schools.
The My School figures show that in 2009 government schools spent a total of $3.16 billion on capital works, compared with $1.63bn spent in all Catholic schools and $1.1bn across all independent schools - including money spent under the federal government's Building the Education Revolution program.
When divided across the number of schools in each sector, it represents an average $469,000 spent in every government school compared with $963,000 in each Catholic school and $1.65m in each independent school.
The most expensive school, which spends $150,000 a student, is believed to be one teaching blind children. The school, spending $3000 a student, was described as an anomaly, on an island off NSW with a peculiar funding arrangement that belied its real level of resources.
The new version of My School will be officially launched today at 10am, and includes for the first time the financial resources available to every school as well as the results from the national literacy and numeracy tests.
The students who first sat the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy resat the tests last year.
That enabled ACARA to track the progress the same group of students had made over the past two years.
Mr Garrett said My School 2.0 was a "substantial step-up" in providing information to parents and the community, and would be a "game-changer" in the debate over school education.
The launch of the revised My School website was delayed from December after an audit by Deloitte found inaccuracies in the data and after complaints from the independent schools sector about the financial data and a lack of consultation about the process.
ACARA officials said yesterday the financial information for all but 29 schools was now complete but the independent schools sector says about 140 of its schools are yet to validate their data.
The executive director of the Independent Schools Council of Australia, Bill Daniels, said while My School 2.0 was not perfect, it provided powerful information and was a significant improvement on the quality of data previously available.
Mr Daniels agreed that most of the fees raised by private schools were spent on capital works.
He said the sector received no government funding for building (outside the BER scheme) and had grown significantly over the past 15 years, requiring it to build the facilities it needed.
"A lot of fees are going into capital works and also into debt servicing, which government schools don't have. In Queensland, the average debt per student in an independent school is about $17,000," he said.
Mr Daniels said elite, high-fee private schools had been pilloried by the public school lobby for years for receiving excessive government funding but My School figures showed they received very little money from government. Of schools operating with more than $15,000 a student, he said they included 250 independent schools and about 80 Catholic schools but more than 1700 government schools.
Australian Education Union federal president Angelo Gavrielatos said government schools cost more because they educated the vast majority of students with high needs, who were more expensive to educate.
Government schools educate 77 per cent of students from low-income families, 86 per cent of indigenous students, 80 per cent of students with a disability, 72 per cent of students in regional Australia and 84 per cent of students living in remote areas.
Mr Gavrielatos said the figures show an unacceptable gap. "These figures are just the tip of the iceberg for private schools and do not take into account the money that is held in assets, investment portfolios, trusts and foundations.
"It is only by looking at the total resources of schools can we get an understanding of the relationship between resourcing and outcomes."
Mr Garrett intends to raise the issue with education ministers to ask ACARA to investigate how to report on the financial reserves available to all schools, which in some long-established independent schools can run to hundreds of millions of dollars. |
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