No movement in NT on schools funding

School Education Minister Peter Garrett has failed to reach a deal with the NT on school funding. Source: AAP

FEDERAL School Education Minister Peter Garrett is leaving the Northern Territory without convincing the jurisdiction to sign on to a new funding deal.

Mr Garrett has urged the NT government to put politics aside and agree to the new schools funding package that would see the jurisdiction receive about $300 million for schools over six years.

He met with NT Education Minister Peter Chandler on Wednesday.

"The door is open for negotiations and discussion, as it should be if we put the interests of students first," Mr Garrett told reporters in Darwin ahead of the meeting.

"There is absolutely no reason on earth why the Northern Territory shouldn't get on board the national plan for school improvement and see additional investment flow to schools in the territory."

Mr Chandler said the discussions had been useful, but no decision on whether to sign on to the schools package was reached.

"That is really a first minister's discussion, that is the prime minister and the chief minister of the Northern Territory," Mr Chandler said.

"What we did speak about are some of the needs in education for the Northern Territory and I think it was a very fruitful negotiation and a fruitful meeting."

Mr Garrett told reporters that under the Gonski schools funding plan, the Northern Territory would have to pay about $100 million and the federal government would contribute $200 million.

But Mr Chandler said the NT Education Department's own analysis showed the NT government may have to contribute $163 million, with the federal government only putting in $137 million.

"That will be very difficult to find in this fiscal position we find ourselves in," Mr Chandler said.

NSW is so far the only jurisdiction to agree to the multi-billion dollar Gonski school funding plan.

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