''I'm absolutely confident that if all of us focus on the interests of Australian students we ought to be able to reach agreement.''īut in a sign of federal Labor's politically strained relationships with some states, Mr Garrett described the Queensland government's actions in releasing a list of 102 schools it claimed would be worse off by 2023 as ''destructive''. ''We're doing everything in our power to reach agreement with the states next week,'' Mr Garrett told Sky News on Thursday night. Three jurisdictions – the Labor-held South Australia, Tasmania and ACT – endorsed the national reform plans during the phone hook-up on Monday but the large conservative-led states held out, amid concerns over an increase in bureaucracy through the proposed creation of a new national data-collection institute. The so-called Gonski reforms would see about $6.5 billion a year injected into schools by 2019 as part of changes to the funding system intended to better target disadvantage, but states have complained they remain in the dark on exactly how much of this they will be required to contribute.
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