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Share and care across common school playgrounds and classrooms adds up

The debate is not about rich kids versus poor kids,it is about asking whether Australia is comfortable with an increasingly divided education system.

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Teachers on strike in Melbourne on March 24.

‘Cannot sell this’:Teachers’ union facing members revolt as crunch meeting looms

A new offer for teachers’ pay and conditions is imminent,but their union is under mounting internal pressure.

  • Noel Towell
A parliamentary committee wants the state and federal governments to compensate Victoria’s state school system for years of underfunding.

‘Righting this wrong’:MPs call to pay back underfunded public schools

A cross-party parliamentary committee has urged the state government to rectify a years-long funding shortfall for Victoria’s public schools.

  • Noel Towell andNicole Precel
The hacked data potentially revealed names,email addresses and the schools students attended.

Queensland schools’ data returned after deal with cybercriminals

“As part of that agreement,the data was returned to us,we received assurances that it will not be further shared on the dark web or elsewhere.”

  • William Davis
Belmore Boys High School brawl

Wild Sydney school brawl ends in injuries,charges

Two 16-year-old boys have been charged after multiple students were injured in a mid-morning melee.

  • Jack Gramenz
Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek.

Students’ names,staff data compromised in state school cyberattack

State school staff and student data dating as far back as 2020,including names,email addresses and school locations,were compromised.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt andDavid Swan
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Former King’s School headmaster Tony George.

The farewell speech ‘joke’ that ended in private school head’s sacking

Tony George made a joke at a staff farewell. He was later fired and told on Christmas Eve he had a month to vacate the headmaster’s residence.

  • Christopher Harris
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Education gets a gee-up

While broadsheets return to the fold.

Marist College Ashgrove teaches students from years 5 to 12 and has a student body of more than 1800.

School fostered misogyny,excused behaviour as ‘boys will be boys’,court told

A former teacher at the Catholic boys’ school says she was surrounded and attacked during a rainy lunch duty,as her legal team fights to access more documents.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Dozens of government schools across Victoria will get funding for building upgrade works.

See the full school list:Hundreds of millions in state budget for crumbling public schools

State government pledges $1.6 billion for school buildings and grounds but campaign group says Victoria still a “national laggard” on school funding.

  • Noel Towell andCaroline Schelle