The committee received over 2500 submissions from individual principals, teachers, parents, students and community members through a campaign run by the Australian Education Union. Due to the large number of submissions received the committee decided  to publish a representative sample and to table the entirety in Parliament.

In general, these submissions raised the disparity in funding received between private and public schools and the difficulty in adequately resourcing public schools with the funding that is currently appropriated. Many of the submissions called for the entire six years of funding for the National Plan for School Improvement to be provided to schools and that this funding should also be provided on a needs basis to effectively support, for example, regional schools and schools with children with disabilities.

The submissions are categorised as follows:

ACT: 65 total submissions
Committee selection comprises:                              
Secondary Teacher         (PDF 2KB)
Parent/Teacher                (PDF 2KB) 
Parent/Teacher                (PDF 3KB) 

NSW: 2236 total submissions
Committee selection comprises:                              
Teacher                           (PDF 2KB) 
Pre-service teacher          (PDF 2KB) 
Retired principal               (PDF 2KB) 
Retired principal/Parent    (PDF 3KB) 
Parent/Assistant principal (PDF 2KB)

NT: 1 total submission
Unable to publish as submitter requested confidentiality

QLD: 274 total submissions
(A majority of these have already been published as they were submissions from principals on behalf of their schools)Committee selection comprises:                              
Parent                        (PDF 2KB)
Individual                   (PDF 2KB) 
Teacher                     (PDF 2KB)
Teacher/Parent          (PDF 2KB)
Disability teacher       (PDF 2KB) 

SA: 59 total submissions
Committee selection comprises:                              
Retired teacher            (PDF 2KB) 
Teacher/parent            (PDF 3KB)
Parent                         (PDF 3KB) 
Retired principal          (PDF 6KB) 

TAS: 31 total submissions
A majority of these have already been published as they were submissions from principals on behalf of their schools.

VIC: 449 total submissions
Committee selection comprises:                              
Teacher/parent            (PDF 3KB) 
Teacher                       (PDF 3KB) 
Parent                         (PDF 2KB)  
Disability Teacher        (PDF 4KB)  

WA: 91 total submissions
Committee selection comprises:                              
Ex-Teacher                (PDF 4KB) 
Parent                        (PDF 3KB)
Teacher                      (PDF 5KB)
Parent of a child with a disability (PDF 3KB)