Labor’s pledge to keeping pumping valuable education dollars into the Coalition’s wasteful SES funding scheme is bad policy, writes Lyndsay Connors. more
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Too smart by half?
Howard’s claim to have increased public school funding by 70% over the last ten years might not be a lie – or even a damn lie – but it’s definitely a dodgy statistic, writes Lyndsay Connors. more
Simpson’s donkey, hijabs and education policy
Lyndsay Connors explains how the government’s commitment to ‘freedom of choice’ has caused problems that have manifest themselves in the debate about values in schools and uniforms.
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What is a good society?
'In a 'good' society, this increase in risk and fear would be balanced by a greater, rather than lesser, governmental role and acceptance of responsibility' by Lyndsay Connors more
Public funding of private schools
Lyndsay Connors Parents with children in non-government schools simply have the same right as their fellow parents and citizens to participate in democratic debate about how governments should allocate tax revenues to education, according to priorities that can be justified on rational grounds. more