Victorian Greens
Party policy · Schools
Fully fund public schools and make them free
Sourced, pending editorial review. Policies are summarised from each party's official material and independent sources captured on 10 November 2026. Summaries were compiled by automated research and have not yet been checked by a human editor — open the cited source to confirm.
What is being promised
Fully fund public schools, remove costs to parents, improve teacher conditions and create an independent authority to allocate upgrades.
How it is intended to work
Increased school funding and a needs-based upgrade authority.
Who may be affected
- Students
- Parents
- Teachers
- Announced cost
- Not stated on the source page
- Funding mechanism
- Party says its platform is funded by taxes on banks, gambling companies and big corporations
- Proposed timeline
- Not stated on the source page
- Says it wants to fully fund schools, make them genuinely free and create an independent upgrades authority.
Important uncertainties
- No published Parliamentary Budget Office costing was found as at 10 Nov 2026.
Positions on key approaches
Public schools should be fully funded and free for parents.
Supports. Fully funded and free.
The state should set targets to lift literacy and numeracy results.
No documented position. No position found in captured sources.
The tax on non-government schools should be scrapped.
No documented position. No position found in captured sources.