House debates
Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Questions without Notice
National Education Standards
3:05 pm
Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source
Unlike the Labor Party, we got all the states and territories to agree to the national school funding model so that we deliver a national school funding model that goes up every year—eight per cent, eight per cent, six per cent and four per cent over the next four years. Labor has failed to commit to school funding increases into the future. As well as that, they are a policy-free zone on the other things that matter: teacher quality; school autonomy; parental engagement and the curriculum. They are a policy-free zone, whereas this side of the House is engaging the whole of the sector in reforms that will address all aspects of bringing better outcomes for students, certainly including funding, but, more importantly, addressing the core issues in school education.
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