"There's revenue while in the technique, and each of the crucial groups are in agreement on reform and that we're moving while in the proper direction
If that does not sound like the acrimonious war over funding which has dominated the debate between state and federal ministers, Scott was discussing something else - a philosophical shift towards evidence-based educating.
The key groups he mentions are teachers, principals, mothers and fathers along with the department - but what with regards to the federal government?
"The federal government is wrestling together with the revenue but there's no disagreement over the basis for reform - it is needs-based funding."
In an unique interview with Fairfax Media, his initial because taking the reins on the schooling department in September, Scott strongly backed the NSW Training Minister Adrian Piccoli's fight for the "Gonski" needs-based funding model for NSW colleges - a battle that has put the minister on the spectacular collision program with his federal colleague Simon Birmingham.
"We've made an extremely robust argument as to why Gonski should really be fully funded, we have made a strong argument as to your added benefits that can presently be viewed," Scott mentioned.
"Governments should think of this as an investment, and we're confident that as they do that, we'll see good returns. So we'll carry on to generate the argument with Canberra as greatest we are able to."
No matter whether or not they're able to change the federal government's position "is a matter for the politicians. I think there is compelling proof as to why the investment has been valuable right here in NSW".
Speaking in the vivid new classrooms of Moree East Public School, the beneficiary of a $15m rebuild and sources injection, Scott explained the state's schooling technique was on the brink of terrific change as cutting-edge international analysis on what functions commences for being rolled out in NSW schools.
The regional major school having a huge indigenous and high-needs population was among the 1st within the state resourced to run exclusive early literacy and numeracy applications with more classroom professionals.
"These are a lot of the most disadvantaged little ones within the state," he stated.
"I'm seriously impressed when I go into primary schools at how teachers are truly teaching to the personal needs of every single child. They're employing information, they are working with evidence, how they're operating and working in teams," he said.
"In NSW there exists the sturdy sense we're on the correct track. I speak to moms and dads groups and teachers groups, the government as well as the non-government sector. Loads of them feel the investment continues to be the appropriate factor - the Gonski funding... And that we're seeing fantastic benefits.
"Education faces good difficulties, but there is a real partnership across the sector."
Appointed by Premier Mike Baird in June, Scott was a shock decision for your prime training bureaucrat career, coming from outside the technique.
He factors out that ahead of his ten years operating the ABC, he was a instructor, education journalist and policy adviser, and that his wife can be a school principal (at Wenona on Sydney's north shore).
"I've had working experience at running a big organisation, a higher profile organisation and a single that's gone as a result of plenty of alter," he said. "So I hope to carry my working experience and wed that with the deep educational expertise that exists in the Division of Education to acquire a fantastic outcome for the little ones in our schools."
He indicated an appetite for reforming the sprawling training department which is slow to modernise its function practices.
"We need to ensure that it is a child-focused organisation, and that each of the choices that are currently being produced at an executive degree maintain coming back to what on earth is inside the greatest interests from the children in our care," he said.
"There's been a substantial thinning out of the bureaucratic layers in recent times, which is component with the funds that is been freed as much as invest in schools, in Gonski. As much as doable we wish to commit our income inside the college gate, giving colleges using the help providers they require.
"More teachers during the classroom delivering specialist solutions and care - that is our leading priority."
About the state's immediate challenge, the drastic, looming shortage of classroom spaces in NSW which needs to accommodate an extra 160,000 college students while in the subsequent 15 many years, Scott stated the division had to move promptly. Its planning for new colleges was going through cabinet processes, "but we're assured we'll possess the money."
Scott will give his first big speech considering the fact that taking the work this Friday at a significant government training symposium in Sydney, immediately after spending two days touring regional and remote schools in the state's north and central west with training minister Adrian Piccoli.
He explained he is settling in happily for the new purpose. "It's an excellent occupation, fascinating. I'm really enjoying it. There is not been per day I've wished I was back in the ABC."