Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek expects Federal Government to match school funding over four years Tony Abbott has been forced to admit he no longer stands by a pre-election pledge that "no school will be worse off" under his government QUEENSLAND Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek says he still expects the Federal Government to meet its agreement to match school funding over four years, despite only being promised one year of it. Mr Langbroek told 612 ABC Brisbane radio this morning the $131 million extra in school funding offered by the Commonwealth was for state schools only and Catholic and Independent schools were yet to receive their figures. Independent Schools Queensland expects to receive provisional figures this week for individual schools. Mr Langbroek said final figures for non-Government schools were still a couple weeks away. Asked how he went from having an agreement worth $884 million over four years to a one-year-deal worth just $131 million, Mr Langbroek told 612 ABC radio he was "confident" the next three years would also be met by Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. "I am prepared to give the Federal Government time to make those arrangements given that they've got a budget situation that they have now had to take stock of and that we've had a commitment from them for $131 million for the first year, that if we really take this to the nth degree, the Labor party were not going to give us," Mr Langbroek said. He has actually given us more this year than the former Government was going to. He has now agreed to give us the first year of that four years and I have no reason to believe that next year we are not going to be able to sort this out for 2015 and the two years beyond. The Courier-Mail revealed yesterday the Federal Government would give Queensland $131 million in additional funding initially promised under Labor, but then taken out of a budget statement before the election. Mr Pyne stands accused of breaking a pre-election promise that every school would receive the same funding under his Government as promised by the Labor party, instead sticking to another pre-election statement that the funding envelope for school funding over the next four years would remain the same as what the former Federal Government had promised. Mr Langbroek said Queensland would spend the extra money on teacher quality, school autonomy and discipline.