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To: Prime Minister Albanese

Fully fund public schools now!

For Every Child

In January 2025, the Prime Minister made a landmark commitment to deliver full funding of public schools.

In agreements struck with Victoria and South Australia, he guaranteed to lift the federal share of public school funding from 20 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) to 25 per cent.

The SRS is the minimum level of funding schools require to meet the needs of all students.

State and territory governments are required to fund the remaining 75 per cent of the SRS and remove clauses in previous agreements that allow them to count nonschool costs of $2 billion a year as part of their share of funding.

Prime Minister Albanese promised that under his government no one would be left behind or held back, and the door of opportunity would open for every child.

Public schools provide that opportunity every day, but must be backed by governments with full funding.

Tell the PM to fully fund public schools now!

Why is this important?

Right now, only 1.3% of public schools are funded at the benchmark set by governments.

Just imagine if public schools were fully resourced. That would provide more teachers, smaller class sizes and more specialist support for children needing extra help, and the PM's promise could become reality.

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Updates

2025-09-02 11:52:49 +1000

Petition is successful with 20,013 signatures

2024-11-20 07:30:43 +1100

20,000 signatures reached

2023-11-17 10:00:53 +1100

10,000 signatures reached

2023-11-16 17:40:13 +1100

5,000 signatures reached

2023-10-27 15:06:12 +1100

1,000 signatures reached

2023-10-27 12:40:38 +1100

500 signatures reached

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100 signatures reached

2023-10-27 11:34:25 +1100

50 signatures reached

2023-10-27 10:14:20 +1100

25 signatures reached

2023-10-25 11:09:18 +1100

10 signatures reached