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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Mon 25 Nov, 2013 Top Stories More Top Stories » NSW plans to fight Gonski funding changes By chief political correspondent Emma Griffiths The federal Government is under pressure from some states to honour the "Gonski" school funding deals that were signed before the election. New federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne has said the Coalition cannot go ahead with the "Gonski" funding arrangements and will go back to the "drawing board". New South Wales and Victoria struck deals with the former Labor government to access a six-year funding agreement for the Gonski model. NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli says the state has a "binding agreement" that must be honoured, and will fight any changes to the deal struck with Labor. The Victorian Government has released a statement saying before the election Tony Abbott promised all existing deals would remain in place if he became Prime Minister. 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