The proposal would:

Option 1: Abolish spending under the ‘education’ function, including under the ‘schools’ and ‘school education specific funding’ sub-functions, and associated spending under the ‘general administration’ sub function, with the exception of that portion of Department of Education and Training (DET), Education Services Australia and Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) funding required for national assessment, data collection and performance reporting (ie NAPLAN/MySchool).

Option 2: As per Option 1, except also retain recurrent schools funding authorised under the Australian Education Act 2013 and redirect that funding to provide a payment to schools based on each child of full-time schooling age. Payments are to be differentiated according to whether the child is of primary school or secondary school age - in line with the ratio under the current school resourcing standard. Payments are to be differentiated according to whether the child suffers a disadvantage - in line with the current system of loadings for disadvantage. Payments are not to be differentiated between non-government and government schools.

The proposal would have effect from 1 July 2017.

Further information is requested on the estimated level of per student funding that would be provided under Option 2 compared to current arrangements.