Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The government has committed to funding $42.4 billion over the four years from 2009 for government and non-government schools. This will form the foundation for delivering our government’s education revolution to all of Australia’s schools. The schools funding will be complemented by over $2.2 billion in national partnerships payments to improve literacy and numeracy, to improve principals’ leadership development, to improve teacher quality and to improve educational outcomes in low-socioeconomic school communities. It will lead to greater transparency in our schools and help lift the most disadvantaged schools of the nation. This will deliver for kids the quality education that we all wish for them, allow our teachers to provide the leadership we know they can provide and improve the quality of teaching available to our students. (Time expired)