Labor is being coy about support for private schools
Donnelly writes in part:
In politics, timing is everything. In the lead-up to the 2007 federal election, Kevin Rudd and his education spokesman Stephen Smith endorsed the Howard government's non-government school funding model and promised, if elected, that no Catholic or independent school would be financially worse off.
But now, with a federal election due before the end of the year and the Rudd Government ahead in the polls, Education Minister Julia Gillard refuses to repeat the promise and to guarantee proper funding to non-government schools.
Twice in the past six months, on being asked whether non-government schools would be financially better or worse off as a result of the imminent review of the current funding model due to expire in 2012, Gillard has refused to answer.
Link to the Courier Mail article
