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The Accountability of Private Schools to Public Values

出版	Australia Institute, 2004
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9VlnHQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Enrolments at private schools have been growing rapidly in Australia and now account for 32 per cent of the total. The Federal Government has suggested that this is, at least in part, the result of the lack of âvaluesâ being taught in public schools. But at the same time the affordability of private schooling has improved due to large increases in Commonwealth funding. Despite the shift to private schooling, there remains widespread agreement in the Australian community about the values that school education should promote. These values include equality of opportunity, the right of all children to a high-quality education, rejection of discrimination and respect for ethnic and religious differences. This paper considers some of the failings of private schools to protect public values and argues that the receipt of government funding should be contingent on upholding them. This focus should not detract from the many laudable qualities of the sector as a whole, nor does it suggest that there are not some failings of the public school system. Its purpose is to attempt to balance what has been a very one-sided debate and to call for the application of the normal principles of accountability for the billions of dollars of Commonwealth and state funding spent on private schools each year. [p.vii, ed].