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January 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Secret research commissioned by state education departments confirms the need to overhaul school funding, the Australian Education Union says.
The report by University of Melbourne education professor Richard Teese showed government funding of private schools had failed to lift standards for disadvantaged students, The Australian newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The research was commissioned as a submission to the federal government’s review of schools funding, conducted by businessman David Gonski.
AEU federal president Angelo Gavrielatos said the report presents the clearest possible evidence an immediate overhaul is needed of the way schools are funded by all levels of government.
“Its conclusion is that funding policies, particularly at a federal level, have increased inequality in education,” he said in a statement on Wednesday.
Governments were spending billions to help private schools to recruit students from wealthier backgrounds.
At the same time, public schools were inadequately resourced to deliver high-quality outcomes for the vast majority of students with higher, more complex needs that remain in public schools, Mr Gavrielatos said.
Professor Teese said the current system entrenched disadvantage for students who came from already poorly-educated homes.
Public schools in poorer areas or with more disadvantaged students did not have enough funds.
“They don’t have enough flexibility,” he told ABC Radio.
“They can’t create the teaching conditions, the learning conditions that are really needed to lift standards to a higher level.”
They did not have those resources because they already had been spent promoting choice for middle-class families, Prof Teese said.
The government received the Gonski report in December and is expected to release it and an initial response towards the end of this month.
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