Ban doesn't halt Feds' Qld school campaign

Treasurer Wayne Swan campaigned on funding reforms during a visit to a Queensland Catholic school. Source: AAP

A CRACKDOWN on politicking in Queensland's state schools hasn't stopped federal Treasurer Wayne Swan increasing pressure on Premier Campbell Newman to sign up to the Commonwealth's education reforms.

Mr Swan has sidestepped the state school ban to spruik his government's Gonski reforms at Catholic school Padua College in Brisbane's north.

It comes less than two weeks after federal Education Minister Peter Garrett was banned from campaigning in Brisbane public schools.

The next day, Mr Newman and his education minister John-Paul Langbroek refused to answer questions about Gonski while making a policy announcement in a public school, instead taking questions once he got outside the school gate.

Mr Swan says the premier needed to follow the lead of his interstate counterparts and sign up to the reforms before the June 30 deadline.

"We saw Mr Newman's Benny Hill routine a week or two ago in and out the front gate playing a silly game to divert attention away from the fact he's playing politics," he told reporters.

"It's time for Mr Newman to put those games away, to get on or sign up to this important agreement, which will lift the quality of education in our schools."

Mr Swan says new figures prove every single Queensland school will be better off under the reforms.

State schools would get a boost of about $3.3 billion under the reforms, while non-government schools will benefit from more than $500 million over the next six years, he said.

But the state's acting Education Minister Ian Walker insisted the deal was a dud that would leave hundreds of Queensland schools in a worse position.

"What Queensland is getting from Gonski is almost 300 schools worse off than they are under the current funding arrangement, kindergartens and universities stripped of their funding and an extra layer of bureaucracy and red tape for teachers," he said in a statement.

Queensland's independent schools say the government should have engaged with the sector instead of releasing the figures to the media.

"This equates to just $370 each year per student including indexation of funding over the six-year period," Independent Schools Queensland Executive Director David Robertson said in a statement.

"The independent sector currently educates 15 per cent of Queensland students, but under the allocation announced today will receive only 7 per cent of the additional future funding."

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