Teenage dropouts a key target in major funding agreement for Australian schools
ABCThe future for Australia's 10,000 schools will be set out in a new funding agreement being signed on Wednesday, with cutting the number of teenagers dropping out of school a key focus. However, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania are holding out, as they want the federal education minister to double his offer and fund 25 per cent of schools. Risking a 'full-blown funding war' The federal opposition said the government had "botched" the delivery of much-needed reforms to Australia's school system. "Rather than just another funding deal, the new agreements tell the education system at large that better results and ambitious reform are expected," said CIS education program director Glenn Fahey said. The Australian Education Union criticised the federal government and called on it to meet the state government's requests to increase its share of funding to 25 per cent.
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