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If you thought Malcolm Turnbull had any commitment to needs-based funding for schools, think again. A new analysis by education funding expert, Dr Jim McMorrow, has found the plan will simply entrench disadvantage by directing 62% of extra federal funding to private schools after 2017.

​AEU NT STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE NT ELECTION The AEU NT congratulates Michael Gunner and the Labor Party on a decisive election victory. Voters in this election decisively rejected Adam Giles and the Country Liberal Party and their arrogant and inept approach to government.

The signature education reform of Peter Chandler and the CLP Government is a dud. At a recent election forum hosted by parent representative body COGSO, Education Minister Peter Chandler declared that all the reforms his government had made to education were underpinned by “science” and “evidence”. When pressed, he states that his central reform was the introduction of increased autonomy for schools, in particular the Independent Public Schools initiative. Thirteen schools have become an IPS to date.

​How much of an impact does commercialisation have in your school? We invite you to participate in a survey that will gather views, and concerns, regarding commercialisation in public education. By commercialisation we mean the provision of products and services by commercial organisations in curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and administration in public schools.

​A new AEU analysis of schools funding shows huge cuts to public school funding across the Northern Territory, with the very worst cuts in the neediest schools in remote and very remote areas.