DESPITE widespread concern over the lack of Gonski funding that will flow to Tasmania's students with disabilities, Premier Lara Giddings is ``satisfied''.
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On Wednesday it was confirmed by the federal government that students who fall in the ``IQ gap'' of between 55 and 70 in Tasmania, will miss out on Gonski disability loadings.
However, students interstate will get this funding.
Tasmanian Disability Education Reform Lobby founder Kristen Desmond has called on the government to undertake a review and raise the IQ cut-off in line with other states.
``It's time for the inequity to stop, students living with disability should not have to move to another state to get the support they should be receiving in Tasmanian schools,'' she said.
According to a spokesman for Ms Giddings yesterday, ``Tasmania already funds disability education proportionally higher than most other states, which means we shouldn't require as much gap funding under the Gonski model.''
``We are satisfied that all students with disability will be treated equitably under the Gonski model and disability education will continue to be appropriately resourced.''
Both the Australian Education Union's Terry Polglase and the Australian Psychological Society's Darren Stops said the government's figures for individual disability funding in the state were inflated, sometimes by as much as 10 times compared to other states, by including the cost of staff et cetera.
Other states do not include these extra costs, they said.
Numerous sources in the education sector raised the point that how could the government know it was appropriately resourcing children with disabilities because it did not keep figures.
The Education Department has previously confirmed it does not keep figures.
Both Mr Polglase and Tasmanian Principals Association president David Raw said they believed in a national standardised measure of children with disabilities, so Tasmanian students are treated the same.
Tasmanian State School Parents and Friends president Jenny Eddington said they had raised this issue with several ministers and the national body representing public school parents.
She said the issue would also be raised at its upcoming state conference.
Opposition education spokesman Michael Ferguson said, ``It is patently ridiculous to hear the Premier and the minister claim that Tasmania is the most generous in terms of support for students with a disability when we have one of the narrowest definitions of disability and the most difficult to navigate system for parents.''
