Call for more funds for disabled students

Eight out of 10 principals have told an education union survey they don't have the funding needed to meet the needs of students with a disability.

Eight out of 10 principals say they don't have the funding they need to cope with an increasing number of students with a disability, according to the education union.

New research from the Australian Education Union has found 79 per cent of public school principals do not have the resources to meet the needs of the disabled.

Of the more than 3300 teachers and parents surveyed between late February and mid-March, 84 per cent said they had to move funds from other parts of the school budgets to cater for students with disabilities.

The findings come as the union's federal president Correna Haythorpe and a delegation of parents and students hold meetings with Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Labor leader Bill Shorten in Canberra on Tuesday.

Ms Haythorpe said the coalition had failed to deliver on its pledge to move to a new disability school funding loading from this year.

The government has put aside $4.8 billion for students with disability over the forward estimates.


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