Gonski row: States vow to fight Christopher Pyne's school funding overhaul.

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Updated 4 hours 25 minutes ago

A political storm over the Government's decision to axe Labor's so-called Gonski school funding is threatening to spill over into next month's meeting between the Prime Minister and state premiers.

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has pledged to renegotiate all school funding deals made by the former government after next year.
On Friday Mr Pyne met with his state and territory counterparts, who described the talks as "very heated" and said they fear public schools will be the big losers under the new model.
Ministers from Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and the ACT came out of the meeting as a united group, saying that all they have been given from the Government is more uncertainty.
New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell says if it is not resolved soon, it will become an issue for Prime Minister Tony Abbott to fix.
"It's untenable that states do deals with federal governments, to have those agreements simply shredded when it suits one of the jurisdictions," he said.
Victorian Premier Denis Napthine is demanding the Federal Government honour the Gonski deal.
"The Victorian Government worked extremely hard to get the best deal for Victorian schools and that's government schools, Catholic schools and non-government schools, and we will expect the Federal Abbott Government to stick to that deal," he said.

Having hounded Labor, the Coalition has decided to break one of its own promises, writes Barrie Cassidy. Tasmanian Minister Nick McKim says it is a "bombshell revelation that will rock the public education system to the core".