The Prime Minister has made reopening schools a priority of his response to coronavirus, and part of his argument is that school closures are leaving the most disadvantaged students behind. Today, Jane Caro on how the political debate over coronavirus is reframing the inequality in education funding.

Guest: Author and writer for The Saturday Paper Jane Caro.

Background reading:

How schools have become political pawns in The Saturday Paper

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly

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