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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces a new schools funding deal with Victoria and South Australia.

Victorian state schools to get $2.5 billion boost as ‘tortuous’ wrangling ends

The funding deal between the state and Commonwealth ends an 18-month stand-off.

  • Noel Towell and Caroline Schelle

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Greens Leader Adam Bandt and Senator Penny Allman-Payne.

Greens pledge $800 in ‘back to school’ money for every state school student

The crossbench party launches its election year with a cost-of-living measure that would cost $10 billion to cover all school charges.

  • Olivia Ireland
Victorian teachers may be about to push for more pupil-free days.

Parents shell out billions as back-to-school costs increase

Rising expenses and tech demands leave families scrambling for ways to save on uniform and equipment costs ahead of the new school year.

  • Rachael Ward
Some Sydney private schools will be charging more than $50,000 a year.

Chop from the top: The Perth private schools getting a funding haircut

St Mary’s Anglican School, Hale School and Perth College are among many WA schools and hundreds nationwide found to have received up to 40 per cent above entitlements.

  • Claire Ottaviano and Alex Crowe
Haileybury and Scotch College are among the schools that will transition to a reduction in funding.

The full list of ‘overfunded’ Victorian private schools facing big cash cuts

Some of the state’s top schools will have their federal government funding reduced, sparking fears of fee hikes.

  • Alex Crowe
Cash has its limitations.

These Sydney private schools will have funding cuts. They might not be the ones you expect

Some schools will lose more than $2000 in federal funding per student under a formula using their parents’ median incomes. See what will change by 2029.

  • Daniella White and Nigel Gladstone
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How the bank of nan and pop is making our polarised school system even worse

Cashed-up grandparents are driving private education fees ever higher. It’s just another degree of stratification for our dysfunctional school system.

  • Jordan Baker
Composite of private schools.

The private schools paying senior staff more than $300,000

Some of Sydney’s top private schools posted surpluses of millions of dollars last year before imposing sharp fee hikes on parents. 

  • Christopher Harris
A lifetime of teaching reveals what really matters when it comes to success during school years.

I taught for 40 years. Inspiring kids comes back to one three-letter word

Many of my students were poor; some of their stories would break your heart. They achieved successes that can’t be measured with data or NAPLAN results.

  • Dianne Kupsch
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed the government’s success on two housing bills after the Greens agreed on Monday to support the Help to Buy and Build to Rent schemes.

Albanese vows to leave ‘nothing on the field’ in bid to defeat Coalition

The PM’s promise comes as Labor is set to gain Senate approval for laws to ease student loans for three million Australians by scaling back the indexation of their debts.

  • David Crowe and Mike Foley

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