The super principals fixing our schools
"We believe that every child has the ability to reach their best."
Education Editor at The Age
"We believe that every child has the ability to reach their best."
At the start of Year 11, Shawn Carter came home to an empty house.
Up to 115 academics are set to lose their job as Victoria University pins its dwindling fortunes on a new college for first year students.
They are supposed to enrol students from all walks of life, but select-entry schools are increasingly catering to the brightest and most advantaged.
The Education Department has threatened state schools with deregistration as Victorian principals revolt against a "deeply offensive" request.
How do you squeeze 650 students into a small inner-city site with no green space?
Residents of Melbourne's west think they've been getting a rotten deal.
Dozens of parents, teachers and students who flooded Fairfax Media with stories of how they, or someone they know, were shut out of the VCE to boost schools' results.
Students who have dropped out of school or been expelled, are waiting months or even years before they can re-enrol. Some are locked out forever.
They are the blue, yellow and rose-coloured glasses polarising the dyslexic community.
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