Pyne 'sabotaging' Gonski deals: Garrett GOVERNMENT ministers have accused coalition MPs of trying to sabotage Labor's new school funding deal and "thug" Liberal premiers into not signing up. The ACT on Thursday became the second jurisdiction to sign on to the commonwealth's Gonski school funding plan, following NSW. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has given all the states until June 30 to sign up to her plan to deliver an extra $14.5 billion plus indexation to schools over the next six years. The government is also still negotiating with independent and Catholic schools. The principal of a Catholic school in opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne's electorate wrote to him saying she was very concerned at the state of these negotiations. "The 2014 school year is rapidly approaching and (it) is time for our schools to plan their budgets and set their schools fees," Mary MacKillop College principal Kath McGuigan wrote. This is impossible to do when the level of funding our schools can expect ... is still not clear. Mr Pyne asked Schools Minister Peter Garrett to clarify how much money Mary MacKillop College would get in 2014. "This school as well as every other school including non-government schools ... will see additional investments flow from 2014," Mr Garrett told parliament. He said he hoped that after the conclusion of negotiations with the non-government school sector he would be asked that same question in the parliament. He pledged to make the details of any agreement public once it had been reached. Mr Garrett said the commonwealth had enjoyed good, cooperative relationships with all parts of the education system during the process to get a new funding deal. But that wasn't the case with the opposition. He said Mr Pyne had dismissed the Gonski panel's findings within 20 minutes of their report's release. "Ever since then he has done everything in his power to sabotage the national plan for school improvement," Mr Garrett said. Treasurer Wayne Swan accused the opposition and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in particular of "going the biff" with the Liberal premiers to stop them adopting the policy. "They have attempted to thug ... the premiers of Queensland and other states into not accepting this deal," he told parliament. And what that means is they're stealing from the future and they're putting their political interests before the national interest.