Journal article
Private financing in urban public schools: Inequalities in a stratified education marketplace
The Australian Educational Researcher, Vol.47, pp.19-37
2019
Abstract
This study examines inequalities of school funding as exclusively generated by the parent community in urban public schools, and potentially illuminates a secondary impact of between-school segregation. For schools that are largely understood as free, the substantial injections of private financing into public schools indicate a concerning tension for fairness and equity. Using a census dataset of all public schools in one Australian capital city (n = 150), we compare reported parent ‘contributions, fees and charges’ and how they are patterned by measures of school disadvantage and advantage. We found a statistically significant relationship between private financing and measures of school-based advantage or disadvantage, over a four-year period. Advantaged schools generate up to six times greater income in comparison to disadvantaged schools over a four-year period, and we argue that the substantial gaps function as another form of ‘compounded disadvantage’ for residualised public schools and a tiered effect of segregation.
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- Title
- Private financing in urban public schools: Inequalities in a stratified education marketplace
- Authors/Creators
- E. Rowe (Author/Creator) - Deakin UniversityL.B. Perry (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- The Australian Educational Researcher, Vol.47, pp.19-37
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag
- Identifiers
- 991005544446007891
- Copyright
- © 2019 The Australian Association for Research in Education, Inc.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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