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The Federal Government has received a mixed response from the states and teachers unions to its new schools plan. While the Commonwealth has promised to boost funding by 75 per cent in the next 10 years, there is uncertainty over the amount schools will actually get in the short term.

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Former businessman David Gonski's (GON-skee's) 2011 report into school needs under the Gillard Government had its critics within the Coalition.

So it was with some surprise that flanking Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the unveiling of his education vision six years later was David Gonski himself.

Malcolm Turnbull says his education plan is about making the system fairer and more consistent and boosting education standards

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Source: AAP

The plan includes additional support for students from low socio-economic backgrounds, those with a disability and those from non-English-speaking backgrounds.

It also includes extra support for smaller rural and regional remote schools.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham says the national needs-based funding model will get rid of multiple school-funding agreements struck under the Labor Government.

But the Opposition has described the announcement as an act of what it calls "political bastardry" on schoolchildren, parents and teachers.

Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek says, on closer examination, the plan actually amounts to a funding cut of about $22 billion.

File image of Bill Shorten Source: AAP

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