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Turnbull schools funding plan denies learning opportunities to NSW children

<h2>A media release from The NSW Teachers Federation has slammed the Turnbull government&&num;8217&semi;s announcement on school funding reforms&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every year that schools are not funded to the minimum resource standard students will be denied the opportunity to reach their potential&comma;” NSW Teachers Federation Acting President Joan Lemaire said&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The release claimed that the 10-year funding plan &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;would effectively prevent all schools reaching the minimum schooling resource standard”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If the Turnbull government fully funded its part of the &lbrack;original&rsqb; six-year Gonski agreements signed with several state and territory governments&comma; all schools would reach this standard by 2019&period;” <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The resource standard was identified in the original Gonski report&comma; with the goal that funding schools to the standard would give all students the opportunity to achieve agreed national educational outcomes&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Turnbull plan will mean that some schools will take 10 years to reach the minimum resource standard and some may never reach it&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The Turnbull government&&num;8217&semi;s funding cut will mean a lot more students will miss out on the help they need&comma; such as access to one-on-one support and specialist literacy and numeracy programs&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Ms Lemaire added&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The NSW Teachers Federation communication expressed concern that so-called Gonski 2&period;0 The second review will not examine how much extra funding is needed to ensure that all schools have the resources they need for their students&comma; it will only consider how money is spent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Lemaire said this was because the review would find the Turnbull government&&num;8217&semi;s funding plan is insufficient to provide schools with the resources they need&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Federation has vowed to continue to campaign to ensure NSW students receive the full benefit of the NSW Gonski agreement&comma; and welcomed continued advocacy by NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes&&num;8217&semi; NSW for students to receive full Gonski funding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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Suzy Barry is a freelance education writer and the former editor of School News, Australia.

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