Fees should remain accessible

The
Catholic Weekly
Online

Sydney
7 March 2004

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Fees should remain accessible

The additional Federal funding will help schools keep their fees at levels which enable access to all Catholic families, says Mons Tom Doyle of the National Catholic Education Commission.

He said that a “socio-economic funding model is consistent with Catholic social teaching which obligate Catholic agencies to pay particular attention to the poor and needy”.

The socio-economic status (SES) measures comprise three dimensions – occupation, education and income. The SES score is calculated by linking student residential addresses to Australian Bureau of Statistics census data.

The SES funding ranges from a minimum entitlement of 13.7 per cent of the Australian Government School Recurrent Cost (AGSRC) for schools with a high SES score of 130 and above to a maximum entitlement of 70 per cent of this cost for schools with a low SES score of 85 and below.