Public school system accountable: McGowan
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Education Minister Mark McGowan says information about WA public schools is already available on the internet. (ABC)
Western Australia's Education Minister, Mark McGowan, says the public school system is already accountable.
Under plans announced by the Prime Minister, it would be a condition of school funding that information about how the schools perform be publicly available.
Principals have attacked the plan as corrupt and disastrous and the Opposition says it was announced yesterday as a distraction from problems with the economy.
Mr McGowan said information about West Australian public schools and their results is already available on the internet.
"There's absolutely nothing wrong with having accountability and that's what we have," he said.
We installed this system of making sure that we have your testing results and and all that information about individual schools out there and online about public schools.
" If Julia Gillard is talking about making sure it's a level playing field across private and public schools, that's a good thing."
