School funding issues

Comments on Jack Keating “Funding key to school reform”, 1/07/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/funding-key-to-school-reform/story-e6frg6zo-1225886406917
A funding model fair to all people and students must be fundamentally guarantee total funding for public schools first, that is why they are public or government schools. They are open to every student who wants to attend and every student have the same option to or not to attend.

To attend a non-public school is a choice.

On top of that, funding for other types of schools should be based on the needs of each type of schools and their selections of students. The needier the schools are (the less other funding resources they can get) and fewer restrictions on selection, the higher the funding should be.

Of course the government should consider the best mix of public and other types of schools and make the choices available for students and parents to choose.