The 2034 deadline means an entire generation will go through schooling without the baseline level of funding, except in ACT
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The education minister didn’t mince his words when fronting the media on Tuesday to announce the commonwealth had done a deal with New South Wales to fully fund public schools for the first time.
“This is the big one,” Jason Clare said. “New South Wales is the biggest education system in the country and this is the biggest investment in public education by an Australian government, ever.”
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