After nearly two years of analysis and deliberations, over 7,000 written submissions and hundreds of face-to-face meetings with stakeholders and interest groups throughout Australia, the Gonski school-funding report was finally launched on February 21.
Given the time, effort and cost involved, one might have expected that the report would finally resolve the much-vexed question of what funding system should replace the existing socioeconomic status (SES) model, due to expire at the end of 2…