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Unvaxxed teachers: PV media comment

The Age reported today that, “Unvaccinated teachers, school staff and childcare workers will be free to return to work from next week, just two months after hundreds were officially terminated over their refusal to be inoculated against COVID-19.” PV Chief Executive Officer Gail McHardy is quoted in the article. Gail said the end of the

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Tudge fudges school results and funding

Save Our Schools says that Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge “resorted to fudging figures to denigrate Australia’s school performance at the Age education summit last week”. Mr Tudge claimed that the UK has improved student outcomes while cutting school funding. However SOS says he ignored serious flaws in the reporting of its results and fudged data on

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NAPLAN controversy

You may have noticed an article in News Corp publications a few weeks ago, claiming that: “Parents will be kept in the dark about school NAPLAN rankings under a new ban on “league tables”. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has banned schools and the media from publishing comparisons of performance in national

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Are the “school funding wars” over?

Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge recently commented that “the school funding wars are over.” According to this article in The Guardian, “The reality of his strange declaration of victory is seven-and-a-half-years of neglect.” The article details how public schools have been denied billions of needed funding over four years as the federal Coalition government systematically

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