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We were delighted to partner with ACEL Australia to engage, share, and learn from schools that are making significant changes in schooling to meet the needs of the future.

ALL commissioned Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, authors of Waiting for Gonski, to develop a proposal which prioritises a new equitable framework of how we fund and regulate our schools.

We welcome your thoughts about our proposal. Questions, objections, support are all crucial to the conversation we need to have.

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Media coverage and conversations on Twitter is underway with a groundswell of support and thoughts about the proposal. Articles have appeared so far in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, and The Conversation.

Under a common framework all schools - whether they are in the Government, Independent or Catholic sectors - would be fully publicly funded, free to the user, and enrol students on a common, comprehensive basis.

A common framework of responsibilities and obligations would apply equally to all publicly funded schools guaranteeing that:

Australia’s track record of educational achievement is now among the most inequitable of any country in the OECD, and we have also been experiencing an overall decline for two decades. To turn Australia’s educational performance around and close the unacceptable gaps between students from different backgrounds, we need to effect three changes:

We are delighted to have launched our latest publication Choice and Fairness: A Common Framework for all Australian schools which calls for a new conversation about Australian education because as a country that prides itself on a ‘fair go’, we are letting down our young people.

The publication is our latest contribution to energising the conversation around equity and passion for deep learning and structural change. Previous ...

This research report from the Assessment Research Centre (ARC) of the University of Melbourne is the second in a series commissioned by Learning Creates Australia on the topic of assessment and recognition of learning. It focuses on the emergence of new forms of credentials for post-compulsory schooling. It explores how issuers of these credentials are building trust in them and utility for stakeholders. It explores implications for assessment ...

Every election, state and federal, is an opportunity to draw attention to the gross inequity of Australia’s bizarre schools funding system. No other developed country funds schools the way we do. We are the world leader when it comes to giving public money to private, fee-charging schools. And we languish near the bottom of international rankings when it comes to the percentage of education funding we give to our public schools. Jane Caro ...

This Centre for Policy Development discussion paper looks at inequity within selective schools and their impact on other schools. It presents evidence of dramatic, and deepening, educational inequality. Selective schools are envisaged as a means for the public education system to cater to high achieving students from all walks of life, regardless of family background. However, My School and other data now reveals that selective schools are all ...