Q. The Federal Government has released a paper which lists several ideas for future funding of schools. Do you approve or disapprove of each of the following ideas?
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Total approve |
Total dis- approve |
Strongly approve |
Approve |
Dis- approve |
Strongly dis- approve |
Don’t know |
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Giving the states and territories full responsibility for all schools |
38% |
35% |
9% |
29% |
24% |
11% |
27% |
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Making states and territories fully responsible for funding public schools while the Federal Government funds non-government schools |
20% |
56% |
4% |
16% |
27% |
29% |
25% |
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Reducing Commonwealth involvement in schools, but without significant structural change |
28% |
43% |
4% |
24% |
28% |
15% |
30% |
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Making the Federal Government the main funder of all schools. |
51% |
23% |
15% |
36% |
17% |
6% |
25% |
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Means testing – charging high-income parents fees for children to attend public schools. |
37% |
48% |
10% |
27% |
23% |
25% |
14% |
A majority of respondents (51%) approve of the proposal of “Making the Federal Government the main funder of all schools” and a majority (56%) reject the proposal of “Making states and territories fully responsible for funding public schools while the Federal Government funds non- government schools”.
They were more likely to reject the proposal to means test parents of public schools (37% approve/48% disapprove) but were divided on the issue of “Giving the states and territories full responsibility for all schools” (38% approve/35% disapprove).