WEL 1998 Election Form Guide

School Education

Public and Private

The issue of whether people choose public or private should be made in the secure knowledge that both offer equally good education options. Shifts of resources from public to private schools when there are already deficiencies in funding the public system are not in the interests of choices. The public systems have made major efforts to look at gender issues and to offer education to all; they need support for those children in the system, many of whom have fewer home based resources.

The following information is incomplete but will be added to.

1993-96 under Labor

Positives

Negatives

1996-98 under the Liberal/National Party Coalition

-1

Positives

Negatives: -1

Shifting of funds from public to private schools, even if public schools do not lose enrolments but private schools gain
Unchecked growth in independent schools regardless of need or enrolment numbers

Election Promises by Labor

Positives: +1

$500m to public schools + $255m to private schools
Controls on growth of independent schools which avoids small sect types schools

Negatives

Election Promises by Liberal/National Party Coalition

-1

Positives

Negatives: -1

No change in policy on enrolment benchmarks

SCORE SO FAR	Labor	+1
SCORE SO FAR	Coalition	-2

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