Early Childhood Australia Update

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for School Education Peter Garrett have announced the annual update http://ow.ly/9tcPw of the My School website by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). This release of My School features an additional year of data for each school, with four years of performance data now available; enhanced information about Vocational Education and Training (VET) in schools; and richer information on students' literacy and numeracy progression http://ow.ly/9tdhN .

no school will lose $1

Australian govt is not confident that there will not be any fee hike in private schools,govt will be backing a pledge that "no school will lose a dollar" under the changes, with a promise to offer new indexation arrangements for private school funding.Mr Garrett refused to commit to a major injection of funds into the eduction system

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