Queensland Rejects Gonski Reforms Queensland has told Julia Gillard to "butt out of education" while revealing it would follow Victoria in hatching its own school funding reform plan. In the latest setback to the Prime Minister's hopes of striking a deal with the states, the Queensland government declared on Thursday the Prime Minister should "give up" on her Gonski school funding reforms. Queensland is the second conservative-run state to go its own way, despite Ms Gillard's insistence that they sign up to the federal plan at the Council of Australian Governments meeting in April. Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said on Thursday he was frustrated by the federal government's failure to detail how it would fund the Gonski reforms and accused federal Labor of using education as a "wedge" during an election year. He said while Queensland wanted to work with the Gillard government, it would follow Victoria's lead in preparing its own plan. "The Premier [Campbell Newman] has already expressed that he sees some merit in the Victorian plan but most importantly, we are our own jurisdiction with our own challenges and that's why we need to come up with our own plan that suits us, not have some sort of Australian government idea that they have come up with that they want to impose on the states," Mr Langbroek said. Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett condemned the move and said it was wrong of the Queensland government to suggest it did not have details of the plan. "They have had details of the model for months and state officials have been working through it with Commonwealth representatives," he said. They are well aware of how this model will work and how it impacts schools in their states. NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said he remained committed in-principle to the Gonski reforms. Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu announced last Saturday his state would pursue its own education reforms, which include a voucher system for disadvantaged students. The federal government has warned Victoria it would receive about four times the funding by 2019 if it sticks with the federal plan. Australian Education Union federal president Angelo Gavrielatos accused Coalition leaders in Queensland and Victoria of putting politics ahead of the needs of children. "They must not turn their backs on our children simply to help Tony Abbott score some political points over the Gillard government," he said. Ms Gillard has placed the plan to inject an extra $6.5 billion annually into school funding at the centre of her re-election pitch. Mr Langbroek hit out at federal government "meddling" and said the Commonwealth should simply put the money it spent on education into the GST pool or similar and carve it up on the basis of population.