THE state's education union says "parents should be alarmed" after it was revealed the Turnbull government plans to cut the final two years of Gonski funding.
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Fairfax Media reported the Coalition would negotiate a new funding deal with states and territories from 2018 in a move towards a simpler funding system that holds state governments accountable for money spent.
However, state Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff said on Tuesday it would continue to fund the full six years of Gonski.
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said a commitment remained to hold discussions after the next election about post-2017 funding "that is fair, transparent, needs-based, affordable and looks beyond just a two-year horizon".
"The government's discussions on future funding will not just be about how more money is spent but will seek to ensure we lift school outcomes too," he said.
The state government has committed an additional $134 million to fund Gonski.
Two-thirds of the Commonwealth's $10 billion in national Gonski funding is set to flow from 2018 and Labor predicts the proposed abandonment will cost every Australian school more than $3 million.
Australian Education Union state president Terry Polglase said Gonski had been thrown in the bin and that more uncertainty for teachers and students had been created by Senator Birmingham's apparent "no plan".
"We have two years left to go - what are agreements worth these days between politicians and states? They are not worth anything," he said.
"He [Birmingham] wants principals to take greater control of their budgets — they have no budgets to take control of.
"How is he going to deal with eight different premiers and education ministers to strike a deal . . . look how they are going with the GST."
State Labor education spokeswoman Michelle O'Byrne said an election commitment had been broken and that Tasmanian schools would be worse off.
