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Which schools will take children and improve their results – and their lives?

School rankings don’t teach us much … unless you include this key variable

NAPLAN results alone cannot tell us what we need to know about a school’s quality of teaching.

  • Marian Vidal-Fernandez

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Templestowe College is no longer going to offer its Montessori Adolescent Program.

These students finally found education that worked for them. Now their program is ending

A Montessori program at Templestowe College that has run since 2012 is being cut, which has upset students and parents.

  • Caroline Schelle
The state government and the AEU have been locked in negotiations this week.

‘Best paid in the country’: Teacher deal to push top wages above $150,000

The state government’s in-principle deal to end the standoff with public teachers, which will cost $4.6 billion, will now be put to a vote of union members.

  • Noel Towell and Caroline Schelle
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 and Nicole Precel
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There are fewer school libraries, but only one student group is affected

School libraries aren’t compulsory, and this is widening the gap between public and private schools.

  • Cathie Warburton
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 and Caroline Schelle
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Teachers on strike in Melbourne on March 24.

Teachers to be offered 28 per cent pay rise in bid to avoid more strikes

A fresh offer is imminent as principals move to join in the industrial unrest at state’s 1570 government schools.

  • Noel Towell, Kieran Rooney and Bridie Smith
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
From left: Aya Alhadloush, 17, coach Ramadan Aldana and Lana Faytrouni, 15, in the Kick ‘N’ Mix program.

How the ‘beautiful game’ is helping teens connect and find their footing

The Kick ‘N’ Mix program helps teens form friendships through sport. It’s one of six community programs aiming to stop violence and aggression at schools through cultural activities.

  • Caroline Schelle
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