Schoolyard Scrap Over Funding Promise in State Election

Principal Bernadette Fabri along with students pose for a photograph at St Patrick's Primary School Parramatta in Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 18, 2021. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts

Labor has vastly underestimated how much it will cost to address historic underfunding for the 800,000 New South Wales (NSW) public school students, the state government says.

The opposition has promised to boost public school funding to 95 percent of a key benchmark by 2025, two years earlier than planned.