Schools Assistance Act 2008

This section is a simplified outline of this Part.

This Part allows the Minister to make determinations authorising the payment of financial assistance to the States for non‑government schools, for recurrent expenditure of the following types:

current SES funding (see Division 3);

maintained funding (see Division 4);

guaranteed year 2008 funding (see Division 5);

maximum SES funding (see Division 6);

distance education funding (see Division 7);

remoteness loading (see Division 8);

Indigenous supplementary assistance (see Division 9);

Indigenous funding guarantee (see Division 10).

Funding for recurrent expenditure is worked out on a school by school basis (whether the school is a non‑systemic school or a systemic school).

This Part also sets limits on financial assistance for those types of recurrent expenditure, using a series of per student amounts for different categories of students, and different levels of education, at each school.