Private schools warn they will lose out despite extra $286m taxpayer fund
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Catholic and independent schools will share in $286 million transition fund.
Coalition of independent schools is warning changes threaten their viability.
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Catholic and private schools in Victoria will share in an extra $286 million from taxpayers as they shift to a new Commonwealth funding model that some non-government schools warn will leave them up to $4 million worse off.
Regional and suburban schools including Bacchus Marsh Grammar, Beaconhills College, Ivanhoe Grammar, Westbourne and Woodleigh say the Morrison government’s new non-government school funding formula will force them to jack up fees and drive many students to state schools.
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Environmental science wasn t even on the curriculum for VCE students at Koonung Secondary College last year. Too few students took an interest for it to gather a viable classroom.
But year 11 student Claire Morgan and some of her friends were interested, so they lobbied their classmates and their school and drummed up enough takers to enable the state school in Mont Albert North to reintroduce it as a year 12 subject this year.
Claire Morgan is the only student on the VCE honour roll with a 50 in Environmental Science.
Credit:Eddie Jim
Yesterday, three members of that class were recognised on the VCE honour roll, which celebrates students who achieve a study score of 40 or higher.