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Articles by Sarah Langman
(In)voluntary expectations: examining school performance discourses around financial contributions from government school parents
ABSTRACT This paper examines how voluntary contributions from families are represented in Victorian Government school Annual Reports and the tensions these create for the notion of a free, public education.
For public school principals, applying for grants is now a big part of their job
Australians know public schools are underfunded. There are media reports of schools needing to fundraise to build essential infrastructure such as school halls and provide playground shade cloths and textbooks. This comes alongside other reports of elite private schools building pools and theatres with multimillion-dollar budgets (helped by their tax exemptions and subsidies) and ongoing concerns about funding disparities between Australian school systems.
‘Very frustrating’: for public school principals, applying for grants is now a big part of their job
Australians know public schools are underfunded. There are media reports of schools needing to fundraise to build essential infrastructure such as school halls and provide playground shade cloths and textbooks. This comes alongside other reports of elite private schools building pools and theatres with multimillion-dollar budgets (helped by their tax exemptions and subsidies) and ongoing concerns about funding disparities between Australian school systems.
Privatising public schools via product pipelines: Teach For Australia, policy networks and profit
ABSTRACT Drawing upon a long-term study of venture philanthropy and public schools in Australia, this paper focuses on Teach For Australia (TFA) as a major component of a venture philanthropic network, one that builds critical infrastructures and connections between non-government organisations and the state, creating a product pipeline into public schools.
Read the room, Premier. Performance pay for teachers will make the crisis worse
Without fail, every time a politician is tasked with reforming education, the issue of performance-based pay for teachers is put on the table. It’s odd, really, that such a controversial idea can keep making the rounds with such enthusiasm from government leaders. But that’s exactly what New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced as part of his platform to reform education.
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