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Education Minister Ben Carroll is going to take stronger measures to ban parents who threaten their children’s teachers.

Toxic parents can be banned from schools for WhatsApp posts

Parents targeting teachers or principals in WhatsApp groups would be forced to take their posts down under an enhanced scheme to protect educators.

  • Caroline Schelle

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Education Minister Ben Carroll on stage at The Age Schools Summit.

The Age Schools Summit as it happened: Payroll tax cap to benefit private schools, education minister says

More of the state’s wealthiest schools could be shielded from a controversial tax if Labor wins the November election, Education Minister Ben Carroll told The Age Schools Summit.

  • Gemma Grant
Jorra Singh took part in one of the extension programs.

Maths camps and coding programs in $75m boost for Victoria’s brightest students

Extra programs on botany, music and dance are also part of a $75 million state government announcement of free extension programs for prep to year 12.

  • Caroline Schelle
A fresh battle is looming over the nation’s approach to educating its children.

The reading wars are over. The learning wars are just beginning

Rebel educators have issued a call to arms against “one-size-fits-all nonsense” of explicit learning in the nation’s classrooms.

  • Noel Towell
The state government is being criticised for its schools funding.

School workers say flat no to teacher pay deal

Hundreds of education support workers have rejected the state government pay offer, while school nurses are also seeking a better deal.

  • Noel Towell
Port Melbourne Primary School prep students Brooklyn, Chloe, Felix and Gonzalo use an explicit instruction approach to learning to read with principal Tom Cain.

This style of teaching gets results, say governments. But resistance to it is growing

The state government says its evidence-based reforms to classroom teaching are a winner, but critics are getting more vocal and organised.

  • Noel Towell
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Parents James Rankin and Hannah Marshall outside Collingwood College, which has water damage on the whole top floor.

‘Chunks large enough to kill’: Parents sound alarm on maintenance as school roof collapses

Public schools battle with collapsing roofs and stinking toilets.

  • Nicole Precel and Caroline Schelle
Government school teachers march in Melbourne’s CBD on Tuesday.

Victorian teachers’ strike reflects a crisis decades in the making

When 35,000 educators took to the streets this week to fight for better pay and conditions, it became clear their rage had been building for years.

  • Noel Towell
Teachers, principals and support workers throng the streets of Melbourne on Tuesday protesting pay, conditions and schools funding.

Pay gap for classroom assistants emerges as flashpoint in Victorian teacher dispute

Education support workers have been offered a lower pay rise than their teaching colleagues.

  • Noel Towell
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

In challenging times, Victoria needs more from a leader under pressure

There’s a litany of reasons behind Jacinta Allan’s poor polling and restless frontbench. The state needs her government to find a way through.

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