COMMONWEALTH INCREASES FUNDING TO NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) develops An Agreed Framework of Principles for Funding Schools, which all State and Territory Labor Ministers endorse. The increase in funding is accompanied by an intensification in governments’ efforts to increase school accountability.

Although education is a State government responsibility, this decade saw a number of initiatives designed to achieve a standardised approach to schooling.