Articles in today’s Age and Herald-Sun focus on the issue of under-funding of Victorian schools. The Age article begins: Parents, teachers and principals at Victorian public schools are being forced to spend their own money to fill funding gaps, as school allocations per child continue to lag way below the rest of the nation. Average
An article in today’s Age focuses on a call from the Australian Education Union (AEU) for more student-free days at public schools, to allow teachers more time for curriculum and professional development. Parents Victoria CEO Gail McHardy is quoted in the article (see below). According to the article, “Victorian public school teachers want twice as
Welcome to a new school year! We hope the summer break provided opportunities for rest, reconnection and enjoyment with family and friends. We are also deeply mindful that for some school communities, the holidays were once again marked by fires and floods. To those affected, we acknowledge the disruption, loss and ongoing recovery challenges you
Parents Victoria CEO Gail McHardy is quoted in an article in the Age today, about the issue of school expulsions. The article notes that 236 students were expelled from Victorian public schools in 2024 (the most recent data available). This was less than 2023, when there were over 266 expulsions. Gail is quoted in the
Parents Victoria CEO Gail McHardy was interviewed on ABC Radio Melbourne’s Drive program yesterday, on the issue of school uniform. Host Ali Moore reminded listeners of the change to uniform rules announced last year, that allows students at Victorian public schools to wear non logoed below-the-waist uniform items e.g. shorts, pants, skirts, socks. Parents Victoria
An advertisement was published in the Age and other Nine newspapers recently, calling on News Limited to stop publishing ‘league tables’ of schools based on their NAPLAN scores. The ad points out that, “It is unfair and misleading to create such tables ranking schools purely by the NAPLAN scores without considering the context of each