'Unhelpfully complex and exceedingly opaque': Australia's school funding system

Australian Journal of Education

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-150

  Dowling, Andrew ^a  

^a Australian Council for Educational Research

Author keywords

Educational administration; Educational economics; Educational finance; Politics of education; Private school aid; School funds

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249139558     PISSN: 00049441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000494410805200203     Document Type: Review

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