Terms of Reference
On 12 December 2013 the Senate established a select committee
on School Funding with the following terms of reference:
- That a
select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on School Funding, be
established to inquire into and report on the development and implementation of
national school funding arrangements and school reform, with particular
reference to:
- the
implementation of needs-based funding arrangements, from 1 January 2014,
for all schools and school systems, including:
-
Commonwealth funding, methods for the distribution of funds, funding
arrangements and agreements with states and territories, as well as related
accountability and transparency measures,
-
funding arrangements for individual schools,
-
the extent to which schools can anticipate their total future funding
and links to educational programs in future years,
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the consequential equity of educational opportunity between states and
territories, schools and students,
-
progress towards the Schooling Resource Standard, and
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the implementation of schools reforms,
- how
funding arrangements will meet the needs of all schools and individual
students, including Indigenous students, students with disability, small
schools, remote schools, students with limited English, and students from
socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds;
- the
Government’s proposed changes to the Australian Education Act 2013,
related legislative instruments and their consequences;
- the
economic impacts of school education policy;
- the
Government’s consideration of expert findings, research, public consultation
and reports in the development and implementation of school policy, including
the selection of experts to provide advice on education policy; and
- any
related matters.[1]
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