Letter: No sense in private school top-up funding

I’m all for the Gonski principle of ‘needs-based’ funding for education – even after it’s been manipulated and mangled by the politicians – but I’m totally unable to find any justification for the $4 billion top up grant the government is now offering to private schools but not public schools. Could this possibly be a pre-election […]

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