Gillard's school blitz to sell Gonski QUEENSLAND and Victoria are digging in their heels as Prime Minister Julia Gillard seeks their support for her schools funding plan before the end of the month. The prime minister and her cabinet are visiting schools around the country this week to explain the $14.5 billion deal and pressure premiers to sign up ahead of her June 30 deadline to get the funds moving ahead of the start of the 2014 school year. She began with an afternoon tea for "I Give a Gonski" campaigners in Sydney on Monday before visiting a Brisbane primary school on Tuesday and is expected to travel to Western Australia and South Australia later in the week. Ms Gillard will also hold a teleconference with 200 school principals regarding the reforms on Wednesday. Meanwhile, her message to the premiers remains unchanged. Ms Gillard says now is the time to boost funding to benefit Australian kids, and if NSW Liberal Premier Barry O'Farrell can see the merit in Labor's plan then why can't his Liberal peers? "It would be a tragedy for Queensland if Queenslanders could look across the border and see schools in NSW that were better resourced and getting better results because (Queensland) Premier (Campbell) Newman had put the politics first," Ms Gillard told reporters. Federal government data shows all Queensland state schools would get extra funding, ranging from 19.4 per cent more to 134.5 per cent more per student by 2019. Queensland education minister John-Paul Langbroek says the federal offer indexed school funding below the actual increase in costs. However, the federal government maintains the existing indexation model would drop to about three per cent over the next few years because of state government cuts. Independent Schools Queensland has called for Labor to release similar data for private schools. However, a spokeswoman for Schools Minister Peter Garrett said the government regarded its negotiations confidential unless information was already in the public domain. Because the Queensland government had issued its projected funding for public schools, the commonwealth had felt justified in doing the same. Meanwhile, Ms Gillard has written to Victorian Premier Denis Napthine to say she was concerned he was stalling the negotiations in order to hide Victorian government cuts to schools behind increased federal funding. This followed a similar letter sent last week by Mr Garrett. "The clock is ticking Denis, please pick up the phone," Ms Gillard wrote. Dr Napthine told journalists he had spoken with Ms Gillard over the last month on five or six occasions and she did not raise the Gonski reforms. "What we need is the federal government to put a fair and reasonable deal on the table," he said.