School funding
‘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
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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
- Exclusive
- Schools
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
Principals prepare to join statewide teachers’ strike
As industrial action looms, school leaders have joined teachers in rejecting the government’s pay offer.
- Noel Towell
Schools set to stay open amid teacher strikes, education minister says
Education Minister Ben Carroll insists Labor can keep Victorian government schools open as principals warn families to brace for closures.
- Chip Le Grand, Nicole Precel and Noel Towell
- Opinion
- Schools
My son’s school trip to Canberra’s in doubt. That should worry every parent
Swimming lessons, the zoo excursion and overnight camps: these important markers of childhood are now out of reach for many families.
- Matt Sharpe
Victorian parents pay most for public schools as state funding trails the nation
Families are paying $620 on average in voluntary contributions to send a child to a state school, highlighting concerns parents are propping up a fall in government funding.
- Nicole Precel and Jackson Graham
‘Absolute disgrace’: Choir, sport, aides on the chopping block as education funding falls $2.4b short
The principal of a school within Premier Jacinta Allan’s electorate is among those tearing into the Victorian government’s decision to delay fully funding the Gonski reforms.
- Rachel Eddie
- Opinion
- Victorian election
In the so-called education state, Gonski puts our schools stone-cold last
Who gives a Gonski? Not Victoria. If there was a league table for government school funding, it would rank behind every other state and territory.
- Chip Le Grand
More than 200 Victorian public schools urgently need repair. Check if yours is one of them
Records that the Victorian government fought for years to keep secret reveal that one in five of the state’s public schools is in “poor” condition and urgently needs repairs or rebuilding.
- Grant McArthur