The latest figures released by the Federal Government shows that 160 Queensland state schools will be worse off under the proposed Gonski reforms, according to the State Government.

State Minister for Education, John-Paul Langbroek, said that the figures released earlier this week shows that the Gonski figures paint a bleak future for a number of the state’s schools.

“Based on these figures, more than 160 state schools will receive less funding in 2019 than they will under the current arrangements,” Mr Langbroek said.

“This is despite the Prime Minister cutting billions of dollars in kindergarten and university funding.

Mr Langbroek said what was even more alarming was that these figures only included state schools when it was known that non-state schools would be the hardest hit by these reforms.

“The Newman Government revealed a number of weeks ago that around 300 Queensland schools, state and non-state, would be worse off under Gonski and the release of this latest batch of numbers has revealed that this is indeed the case,” he said.

Mr Langbroek said it was clear that Julia Gillard was a desperate Prime Minister, hanging onto the hope that the Gonski brand would save her leadership.