Keep your Gonski promise Mr Abbott

[donnashuggy]

If you give a gonski apparently there is a petition on the gonski site.

You can see what your school stands to gain on the site:

http://igiveagonski.com.au/whats-gonski/your-school/

[izabsmiling]

M*M:well maybe "some" should do something about it and try to educate themselves a little bit about the big picture, rather than just focus on what "they" are are missing out on.

change missing to missed 

M*M:But the general public need to realize that this money (regardless of whose program/system it is or whatever name we give it) won't make an overall long lasting difference. because whilstever the general public believes that it will, they will not take the responsibility to educate their children, they will continue to believe that the government is doing it, and let another generation of kids enter the realms of illiteracy.

If parents and care givers really want to see their children educated, they need to take on at least some of the responsibility themselves, because the bottom line is, the government is just not doing it for them.

I've heard of above the law but not above the 'general population.Wow

I find it amazingly inciteful of you to think that  know what other parents and carergivers do and don't do .

and that you care so much 

It's nice to have such friendly people in this Community 

[izabsmiling]

We pay our Government big dollars to Govern for us. I hope that no one minds if our Government is actually discussed .

[daydream**believer]

thankyou my mum for your informative posts

[izabsmiling]

what have you learned Daydream Believer ?

If anyone wants to know about the official report .It's here .Thanks for keeping a copy Fairfax

Gonski's gone: school funding review struck from record

Dec 3,2013 

Gonski has been expunged from the official record.

Search for the name of the report on the Commonwealth Education Department website and you'll get a reply asking whether you meant “lenskyi”.

Search for it by its official title - Review of Funding for Schooling - and you'll be told your search “returned no results”.

The review was the most comprehensive in 30 years. It took 20 months to complete. It spans 300 pages. It attracted an extraordinary 7000 individual written submissions. Five of the six panel members held the Order of Australia. The government even gave the inquiry and the report their own website: www.schoolfunding.gov.au

But they are not there any more. Visits to www.schoolfunding.gov.au are redirected to the departmental website of minister Christopher Pyne, where there's no mention of the word "Gonski" at all, let alone a copy of the report or its 7000 submissions.

A departmental spokesman has confirmed that the report is missing. He told Fairfax Media all material on the website was removed when the machinery of government changes came into effect. The department was “in the process of updating its website after the machinery of government changes”.

The machinery of government changes took place three months ago. They split the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations into two: Education and Employment.

It is not clear why the change should have removed the Gonski schoolfunding.gov.au website, if indeed that is what happened.

The spokesman was unable to confirm whether the cleansing of the website was accidental or deliberate.

In the meantime, he offered to email Fairfax Media a copy.

Fairfax Media has its own copy, available here.

Other departments have had no difficulty keeping reports commissioned by the former government on their websites. The modelling of the carbon tax remains on the Treasury website. The minerals resource rent tax documents remain on the resources department website.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/gonskis-gone-school-funding-review-struck-from...

it's here 

Review of Funding for Schooling
Final Report
December 2011

Expert panel
David Gonski AC, Chair
Ken Boston AO
Kathryn Greiner AO
Carmen Lawrence
Bill Scales AO
Peter Tannock AM

http://www.afr.com/rw/2009-2014/AFR/2012/02/20/Photos/c396c252-5b66-11e1-b121-7532de62367a_schooling...

[*crikey*mate*]

If the Australian Government is genuinely interested in equality for all students, then why do they use The Bell Curve to assign and distribute grades?

[izabsmiling]

It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that our Government doesn't care about much at all...including doing the job we pay them to do.

Without 'strings attached' to this 'free money' of ours they are giving out 

all they care about is being about to say 

"no school is worse of because of federal funding they have given'

the States don't need to commit to their contribution to education.

another Farce !

outcomes,our children and our money don't mean a thing 

opportunists is what they are 

Incredible that we are in Australia and this Government  is controlling/removing  our information on OUR Government sites too .

[izabsmiling]

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@my*mum wrote:

If the Australian Government is genuinely interested in equality for all students, then why do they use The Bell Curve to assign and distribute grades?

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What does the Gonski review.....A review done in Australia ..

the most comprehensive in 30 years say and suggest for the future ?

[monman12]

JMK: "Did you know the Libs have removed all references to Gonski from their website? That includes the full report and apparently 7000 contributions. Appalling."  All references?

No JMK I did not, however, from experience I did not believe the comment so I went here and typed in  gonski  in the search space

http://www.liberal.org.au/search/node

Oh gosh, 6-7 pages of references for "Gonski". How did that happen?

[lightningdance]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

thankyou my mum for your informative posts

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Ditto, good posts that are informative and not just the  “show me the“money” palaver Labor are frothing about. They got completetly wrong footed, looked like fools yesterday and today.

I am so over their bleating. 

[lakeland27]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that our Government doesn't care about much at all...including doing the job we pay them to do.

Without 'strings attached' to this 'free money' of ours they are giving out 

all they care about is being about to say 

"no school is worse of because of federal funding they have given'

the States don't need to commit to their contribution to education.

another Farce !

outcomes,our children and our money don't mean a thing 

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 true, there's little doubt the backflip was driven by public reaction (who'd have thought these 'adults' would be so sensitive)

abbott and pyne handing out this money without central control of how the states spend it demonstrates its a knee-jerk reaction.

good enough to keep their wavering supporters quiet anyway.  the states who held off signing up to gonski in the hope of more are the ones who will fall short now. (that doesn't include newman, he'd siphon it off somehow anyway and only held back from signing to help abbotts electoral campaign,  students and outcomes are the last priority of his govt)