Bio

Chris Bonnor is a recent President of the NSW Secondary Principals Council and co-author of The Stupid Country, How Australia is Dismantling Public Education, due to be published in July by the University of New South Wales Press.

Chris Bonnor's contributions:

Quality education for all: the view from the ground

Chris Bonnor describes how inconsistent obligations condemn one sector to struggle and enable the other to succeed.

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Education Topic 1: Responding to parental anxiety

Our education system is no longer based on values, writes Chris Bonnor in the third article in the Education Policy Development Series. Instead we have a system that has developed through inconsistent decisions made in response to anxiety in parents and voters. We need acknowledgement of the relative under-funding of public education, needs based funding formulas, regulation of student admissions and public charters of obligations for schools.

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