Queensland Government to investigate alternative education funding plan QUEENSLAND is preparing its own school funding model with a new plan expected to be finished before the state budget, Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek revealed. In the latest blow to the Federal Government's national education reforms, Mr Langbroek said Premier Campbell Newman had asked him to come up with an alternative plan "post haste." Mr Langbroek would not rule out supporting the Federal Government's plan though, saying he didn't have enough detail to even consider it properly yet. "It's obvious that after what has happened over the last week that Queensland has got four choices," Mr Langbroek said. We can either accept Gonski - and yet we don't have the detail - we can reject it, we can look for a compromise or we can come up with our own plan. He said Victoria had been driven to coming up with its own school funding plan out of frustration over the Federal Government's handling of the issue and it was something Queensland was also working on. But he said Queensland wasn't necessarily looking at the same changes as Victoria because the state had different challenges. "The Premier has already expressed that he has seen some merit in the Victorian plan, but most importantly we are our own jurisdiction with our own challenges," he said. 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 the Federal Government's wishes and demands had just led to more red tape and not "better outcomes." "Yes I am preparing something," he said of the plan. We need to be a government that is planning for all contingencies. "We will continue to work with the Federal Government, but importantly we need to have an alternative, so that is where the Premier has asked me to do that post haste," he said. He said a Queensland plan would look at literacy and numeracy in the early years, closing the gap and principal autonomy. The plan is currently being developed and would be finished in time for the state budget. Mr Langbroek also accused the Federal Government and Prime Minister Julia Gillard of trying to use the reforms "as an electoral wedge." "It is almost as though the Australian Government has deliberately dragged out these negotiations without providing any detail so that we could get to an election year and Julia Gillard could say 'If you vote for me you will get this, if you don't vote for me you won't', and that is the worse thing that we have seen in this whole debate," he said. His comments came after he delivered a speech to a statewide principals' conference, criticising the Federal Government's increasing "creep" into education, which he said should not be centralised.