80 0 obj <>stream A HUGE funding boost for Catholic and non-government schools is being ... there are just over 1,200 Catholic primary schools across Australia. But the CSNSW model allocates public funds to these schools at 60 to 62.5 per cent — three times as much as intended. 0000002004 00000 n 0000056130 00000 n The money comes from the government funding intended for low- and middle-SES schools, which are mostly in outer Sydney or regional and rural NSW. According to the 2020-23 draft proposal, the model fulfils the bishops' intentions: Mr McInerney confirmed these details were a "broadly" accurate description of the current model. Another document analysing the Catholic system's 2015 and 2017 distribution models, labelled "Confidential", describes how high-SES schools benefit at the expense of low-SES schools: A comment on the same document suggests that the CECNSW's own data contradicts the arguments it is making to the public: This slide from a presentation about the proposed 2019 distribution model illustrates how much funding regional and rural dioceses would surrender to Sydney and Broken Bay under that model: A 2017 CECNSW analysis explains the risk involved in raising primary school fees in the Sydney and Broken Bay dioceses. "Queensland and NSW have the most obvious cross-subsidy but fees in the ACT and Victoria are also higher than you would expect for low-SES schools, and lower than you would expect for high-SES schools.". Through the Quality Schools package the Commonwealth is investing a record $310.3 billion over 2018 to 2029 to support the needs of students in Australian schools. We are having our Annual General Meeting at CCS on Thursday night. At the most advantaged schools, public funds are meant to cover only 20 per cent of the standard cost of education. A personal Catholic school is independently funded by an individual or individuals acting upon their part as a trustee. Taxpayer dollars cover about 80 per cent of the cost of educating a child in the Catholic school system. By 2029, all schools in the government, Catholic and independent sectors will be funded on a … 0000064541 00000 n 0000055983 00000 n "[But] nobody likes giving up money, do they? 0000206299 00000 n The proposal drew praise from Catholic schools and raised some concerns from independent schools. The notes now also list some of the types of charges parents may pay in addition to school fees. But now it seems that Catholic Schools NSW wants to skim off part of the loadings," he said. "The money their kids are attracting to the system is actually being siphoned off to go to wealthier schools, to keep the fees down for people who live in [the wealthier Sydney suburbs of] Gordon and Killara. Let’s end publicly funded Catholic schools. education, Both sectors have high-quality schools with dedicated teachers. However, experts say the documents reveal CSNSW's intention to subvert the aim of public policy. Containing data stretching back to 2015, they include internal analyses and proposals, presentations, emails and working papers prepared by CSNSW or CECNSW for the 11 bishops of NSW and senior staff at diocesan education offices. Catholic Australia is Australia’s leading repository of information about the Church in Australia. About 80 per cent of government funding to non-government schools comes from the Federal Government. religious-schools, 18.8% of pupils at Catholic primary schools live in the most deprived areas compared with 13.5% nationally. The Catholic sector's share of full-time equivalent primary school enrolments in NSW fell to 18.4 per cent in 2019, from a peak of 20.0 per cent in 2012. However, an ABC analysis based on Commonwealth data shows this applies only to eight of the roughly 420 Catholic system primary schools in NSW. Education expert Lyndsay Connors, who has held senior education positions at Commonwealth and state levels, said the focus on fees "may well reflect concern that the recent decline in student numbers and enrolment share in their primary schools — especially in more affluent areas — will jeopardise the future of the sector.". By 2023, wealthier dioceses will have gained an estimated $309 million at the expense of poorer dioceses. My School finance data provides comparable income and expenditure data across individual schools. "This makes a mockery of the freedom that the law gives them to redistribute the government funding they get.". 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Ashton is in Year 2 at St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Toukley, on the Central Coast. The details of these distributions have long been kept secret, despite the Education Act requiring system distribution models to be "transparent and publicly available". "To me, this is the internal memo from [cigarette company] Philip Morris saying: 'Hey, look, we know smoking causes cancer, but we just won't tell anybody.'". In this article, we provide you with some scholarship tips and advice to assist with your scholarship applications and increase your chances of receiving sponsorship. "State-level patterns show CSNSW is not the only system subsidising high-SES primary schools," Dr Goss said. Some documents have been labelled "Confidential", "Commercial-in-confidence" or "Confidential draft" and include comments from Catholic schools office staff. "[These documents] provide clear evidence that NSW Catholic funding distribution is designed to avoid the goal of public policy: that parents who choose non-government schools should pay in line with their income," education policy consultant Peter Goss said. The Australian Government provides funding for Catholic schools to assist with the recurrent costs of school education. <<7A9A611B6622A448822B4658377D2E51>]/Prev 454493>> "The aim is to make the low fee offering as ubiquitous as we possibly can right across NSW," he said. 0000006772 00000 n Compared to the other dioceses, Wilcannia Forbes has the highest share of students who are Indigenous, low-SES or have a disability. Since the early 1970s, Australian Catholic schools have received significant funding support from Commonwealth, state and territory governments. My School data was compiled from the My School website by the ABC. The numbers will change… 0000010146 00000 n Catholic schools are an integral part of the Church and are Christ-centred communities based on gospel values. It is based on charts in the leaked documents. Labor has ridden to the defence of the Coalition’s $1.2bn Catholic and independent school package it formerly labelled a “slush fund” after the Greens revealed a plan to shut it down. They gain at the expense of regional and rural dioceses, including Armidale, Wagga Wagga, Wilcannia-Forbes and Bathurst. The documents uncover for the first time the calculations used by CSNSW and its predecessor, the Catholic Education Commission of NSW (CECNSW), to distribute government funding among the state's 420 or so Catholic primary schools. 0000056502 00000 n "You just think: 'Why do they even write this down?' Many international students are interested in gaining a scholarship to help pay for their study in Australia. Skip ahead to see what the data reveals about your Catholic primary school. Faith schools are predominately funded by the council - the church does provide finances to the school, but it is not necessarily a large amount of money. Other parent contributions may include, for example, building levies or fees for administration, teaching resources, excursions, sports, technology, and so on. Catholic schools are funded in the same way as private schools in as much as they charge a fee to their students and they receive a government grant. 0000056449 00000 n This was "one of the most disappointing" revelations in the documents, Dr Goss said. The National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) is established by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference through the Bishops Commission for Catholic Education to maintain effective liaison with the Commonwealth Government and other key national education bodies. Australian Government funding for schools explained 1 Introduction The debate about the Australian Government’s funding for schools has been reinvigorated by its school funding review—the first comprehensive government appraisal of school funding since the early 1970s. 0000215007 00000 n He said the inconsistency between the two distribution models grew starker as time wore on. "I ... feel a bit ripped off now," she said. If you have inside knowledge of a topic in the news, contact the ABC. This year, the family will pay roughly $3,400 in school fees — an amount Ms McMahon has never thought to question. Here's how it plays out for individual schools. Dutch education law requires a "responsible authority" for each school. Catholic schools -- Australia -- … tas, University funding is complex and often, little understood. I've covered this info on "How Catholic Schools are Funded" at past meetings but I do not plan to address it directly on Thursday night. schools, 0000004721 00000 n It suggests that in 2020, roughly 90 schools are collecting fees and other contributions far below the intended capacity to contribute. In 2017, there were just under 282,000 teachers in Australian primary and secondary schools. Government schools. The median incomes of parents at these schools are among the highest in NSW. St Mary's should be collecting roughly $1,175 in fees and other parent contributions, according to the AEA. 0000007043 00000 n Catholic Schools. The Catholic sector supports a strong, properly funded government school sector. vic, At the opposite end of the scale, about 280 schools — the vast majority low-SES — are collecting amounts far above parents' capacity to contribute. Both CSNSW and the dioceses are permitted to redistribute government funding, providing the distribution is needs-based, has loadings for disadvantage, and is "publicly available and transparent". 0000055249 00000 n nt, The total annual redistributions for 2018-23 are based on CSNSW figures. How many schools are funded according to their SES score? Do we need masks? And, as well, all the latest publications from Pope Francis Catholic schools, like all non-government schools, receive their primary government funding from the federal government. This is how Catholic Schools NSW has re-drawn the curve, according to the draft proposal. In Catholic and other non-government schools, state/territory and federal governments fund 20-90% of the SRS base amount according to a means test of the school’s parents, who are expected to make up the shortfall. 1. The National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) is established by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference through the Bishops Commission for Catholic Education to maintain effective liaison with the Commonwealth Government and other key national education bodies. 0000056777 00000 n ABC teams share the story behind the story and insights into the making of digital, TV and radio content. "Does all of this compound and lead to an overall decrease in enrolments in Catholic schools?" "It says [their model] uses different values but doesn't give you their values or their formula or any way of gauging how much they are subsidising parents in advantaged schools compared to the national formula.". %%EOF The funding methodology incorporates a ‘base’ plus… Mr McInerney said the government model implied fees of up to $9,500 in some Catholic primary schools. These schools are managed by the Queensland Catholic Education Commission and follow the Australian Curriculum. 0000015297 00000 n The ABC supplied CSNSW with a detailed spreadsheet of figures compiled from the documents. Dozens of low- and middle-SES schools are charging parents the same amount or more than their high-SES counterparts. startxref This analysis uses non-government school "capacity to contribute" scores based on "direct measure of income" (DMI) to compare school socio-economic status. However, the document available on the CSNSW website, titled "The needs-based funding arrangement for the NSW Catholic schools system" says only that the model "limits" the CtC amounts for higher-SES primary schools but does not specify by how much. Catholic schools. According to a draft proposal, CSNSW's 2020-23 distribution model gives three times more government funding to the system's highest-SES primary schools than they are entitled to under the Australian Education Act (AEA). In 2018 there are 153,175 students enrolled in 330 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese, supported by more than 18,744 teaching and non-teaching staff. The "crunch point" came in 2014, when the Education Act made it "not just a pity, but unlawful not to allocate your grants strictly according to a needs-based formula", he said. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 0000001893 00000 n The proposal drew praise from Catholic schools and raised some concerns from independent schools. Government grants for Catholic schools in Australia are used for the less fortunate students. From 18th century foundations, the Catholic education system has grown to be the second biggest provider of school-based education in Australia, after government schools. The contributions of Catholic Education in Australia today is immense, with 1,731 Catholic schools across the country educating more than 765,000 students. Other figures for 2018-23 and all figures for 2015-17, including total annual redistributions, are compiled from the documents. 0000000016 00000 n Mr McInerney said CSNSW estimated the redistribution over the nine years to 2023 was "closer to $200 million" and confirmed the annual amounts redistributed from 2018-23. Catholic education in Australia refers to the education services provided by the Roman Catholic Church in Australia within the Australian education system. But the data suggests it collects just one third of the amount families are expected to contribute. Here is the primary school "capacity to contribute" (CtC) curve set out in the Australian Education Act. CSNSW figures confirm the amount of funding being transferred each year from 2020-23 will rise with inflation. At Fr John Therry in Balmain (bottom right), one if the highest-SES schools in the system, parents contribute about one-third of the amount set in the Act. Scott Morrison has used the threat of withdrawing independent and Catholic schools’ recurrent funding to enlist their support in keeping non-government schools open … "The [CSNSW] model is compliant with the requirements of the Act. Canberra, Australia, Nov 7, 2018 / 05:10 pm MT ().-Catholic schools in Australia have secured an increase in funding from the government following an outcry from Catholic leaders, but some Australians have been questioning the Church’s tactics in securing the funding. 0000003549 00000 n If some Catholic primary schools are forced to double or even triple their fees and lose enrolments, this may start to put pressure on Catholic secondary schools. State and federal government funding for Catholic system schools in NSW — amounting to $2.8 billion in 2020 — is calculated based on individual schools but delivered as a lump sum payment to Catholic Schools NSW (CSNSW), the sector’s administrative body for school funding. The schools reaping the biggest benefit are the state's most advantaged schools. 0000004472 00000 n High SES systemic Catholic schools in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia appear to have part of their over-funding re-distributed but they still retain the large part – about 60% on average; that is, they remain significantly over-funded despite some re-distribution. For example, Fr John Therry, in Sydney's inner west, is one of the most advantaged schools in the state. 0000062175 00000 n The Catholic Church has established primary, secondary and tertiaryeducational institutions in Australia. These vary from school to school. A Department of Education, Skills and Employment spokesperson said: "The ... [Education Act] recognises that schools and school systems are best placed to understand the individual needs of students and budget accordingly.". And the problem may go well beyond NSW, data shows. However, he declined to share further figures with the ABC. Sydney, Australia, Jul 7, 2018 / 04:50 pm MT ().-Catholic schools in Australia could see an increase of up to $74 million a year from independent schools following a … CSNSW CEO Dallas McInerney confirmed this accurately describes the current model: "In broad terms, yes". 0 The socio-economic status (SES) of a school is based on the median income of parents and determines their capacity to contribute. Catholic School Parents Australia, 143 Edward Street, QLD, 4000, 07 3905 9734. This lesson describes the differing ways schools are funded and explains what each means. 0000010007 00000 n Read about our editorial guiding principles and the standards ABC journalists and content makers follow. 0000001556 00000 n However, he later said that $21 million would be transferred to the Sydney and Broken Bay dioceses in 2020: $15 million from the "non-rural" dioceses of Parramatta, Wollongong, Maitland-Newcastle and Lismore, and $6 million from the remaining five "rural" dioceses. 0000062601 00000 n (Broken Bay diocese encompasses Sydney's Northern Beaches and North Shore, as well as the Central Coast.). 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"If it wasn't necessary for me to pay as much as I am, that money could have gone elsewhere.". australia, The Government has assured critics the funding will rise an average of 3.7 per cent a year for a decade. While placing a high value on academics, these schools do teach from a religious standpoint. Similarly, St Bernadette's in Castle Hill collects just over half of the intended capacity to contribute, the data suggests …. If you have picked a private Catholic school, how does that work? 0000004585 00000 n 0000056685 00000 n Primary school enrolments often feed into secondary school enrolments, Dr Goss points out. 0000014498 00000 n In the Townsville Diocese, which extends north to Halifax, south to Proserpine and west to Mount Isa, there are 28 schools catering for more than 12,000 students. 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