A stoush is brewing over school education funding, ahead of a meeting between federal, state and territory ministers tomorrow.

Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham will meet state and territory counterparts in Adelaide tomorrow to begin thrashing out funding beyond 2017.

The Commonwealth has released modelling it said showed discrepancies between different school systems.

The analysis showed federal funding for a hypothetical school — with a high percentage of disadvantaged students — differed by hundreds of dollars per child per year between states.

It would receive $3,366 in Tasmania, $3,236 in New South Wales and $2,649 in Western Australia.

"The Turnbull Government is determined to right this corruption," Senator Birmingham said.

He vowed to "replace the special deals that Bill Shorten cobbled together as he ran around the country wheeling and dealing with the highest bidder with a new, simpler distribution model where special deals don't distort a fair distribution of federal funds".

"Tomorrow's meeting will be a chance for education ministers to indicate which areas of our proposed evidence-based reforms they believe we can effectively cooperate on," he said.

Senator Birmingham said deals struck in 2013 with states, territories and non-government school authorities were inequitable and based on historic funding.

He said the Commonwealth wanted to replace the 27 separate agreements with a simpler funding model.

'Birmingham telling another lie': Shorten

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten rejected the argument, saying the Coalition was "telling another lie to justify them stealing money from schools".

Mr Shorten told reporters in Melbourne the funding had been agreed to by Liberal state governments, citing NSW Premier Mike Baird and the former Victorian Liberal government.

"If the Liberals want a debate about education in this country and needs-based funding, bring it on," he said.

The Australian Education Union's Correna Haythorpe says there is a good reason for the funding split to be tailored in each state and territory.

"The Government's analysis today is a rewriting of history," she said.

"Our schools are not operating in a like-for-like environment. States have different funding histories and different starting points."

Senator Birmingham told 612 ABC Brisbane Queensland would be eligible for more money than most other states based on geographical size.