Public schools held the most students with socially disadvantaged and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, the Queensland Association of State School Principals said.

Queensland will remove a provision that allowed its government to claim four per cent of state school funding for indirect school costs and replace it with four per cent of recurrent funding on eligible expenses.

“Today will change lives because public education changes lives.”

John-Paul Langbroek, David Crisafulli and Anthony Albanese have signed an education funding deal for Queensland. Source: AAP / Mick Tsikas

The Australian Education Union welcomed the announcement.

The federal government had struck deals with Western Australia and Tasmania in 2024 to boost its contribution to 22.5 per cent, leaving the states to increase their funding to 77.5 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard.

Queensland’s deal, like those made with other states, is tied to reforms such as catch-up tutoring and wellbeing initiatives.