DOGS: Recent Episodes
Jean Ely and Dale Bridge
The Australian Council for the Defence of Government Schools (DOGS) looks at public education and separation of church and state.
t hear parents and taxpayers laughing. From God to Godfather- the secretive young men behind the Reformers. Crunch time for school education. US- Fl. The wild west of private schools that collect taxpayer dollars.Great State School of the Week- Diggers Rest Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
s students forced a political retreat.Great State School of the Week- Wodonga Senior Collegewww.adogs.info
for ratepayers. Alleged illegal donations by CatholicSchools NSW to Liberals raise questions. US- Supreme Court continues culture wars. Great State School of the Week- The Grange P-12 College Hoppers Crossingwww.adogs.info
Renewed Interest in the idea of Separation of Church and State. VGSA developments, including Stop Work Action on Thursday 23rd July. ICAC Operation ROSNY to examine Catholic Schools NSW and hard right Liberal Party links. Public provision as the solution to inflation. Private schools want billion dollar slush fund to remain. Big mining companies push into Australian schools. US- No academic improvement despite system-wide voucher program UK- The Myth of the Grammar school.Great State School of the Week- Niddrie Autistic Schoolwww.adogs.info
for tree levy grant.Great State School of the Week- Belltrees Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
- Greenwell/Bonner response to Save Our Schools analysis. QLD Private schools have a large resource advantage over public schools- Cobbold analysis. UK- VAT on private school fees KOREA- TV show about school violence sparks discussion worldwide. NSW- Polling and focus groups show voters are ready to reward a government that invests in public education.Great State School of the Week- Kensington Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
t match. One in Four Humanities students in Australia take more than 25 years to pay off student loans, Treasury finds. Scotland- Education Union leaders stress importance of global solidarity. Worldwide- Violent attacks on schools, pupils and staff internationally up by 40%. A job that changed me- teaching in a juvenile detention centre.Great State School of the Week- Parkville Collegewww.adogs.info
charity status in UK. International - Echoes of history, oligarchs and education. Changing the approach to strengthen literacy in primary years. Great State School of the Week- Kunyung Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
in schools. International- The commodification of education. Celebrating Public Education Day in Australia with former Sylvania High school student Kathy Lette and her teacher Rob Adams.Great State School of the Week- Sylvania High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Victorian teachers are very, very restive and unhappy with the proposed in-principal agreement- their analysis is available here- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyfPM0K6PxJ4i_5r4TFZG0H5JkbaEUSL/view?usp=drive_link Australian schooling needs restructuring, but who will do it? The Budget was meant to be about fairness- so why are young people still paying $52K for a degree? School students digital literacy at a new low. Argentina- Huge cuts to higher education US- Education privatisation propaganda is worsening. Calls for Tasmanian free school lunch plan to roll-out nationally. One shop in Brunswick supporting public schools. AEU calls for submissions on school infrastructure, visit- https://www.schoolsforourfuture.org.au/make-a-submission Great State School of the Week- Viewbank Primary SchoolRadiothon is fast approaching! PLEASE pledge a donation to help the DOGS and 3CR stay on air. The DOGS target is $4500- every dollar counts! Pledge now, pay later! All donations over $2 are tax deductible. Call the station and pledge to the DOGS on 03 94198377 or visit 3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
re able to pledge a donation, please contact the station (during business hours) on 03 94198377. Every bit counts, pledge now and pay later, all donations over $2 are tax deductible.Help Keep 3CR and the DOGS on air for another year.www.adogs.info
- a teaching moment. ITALY- Students and teachers strike against right-wing reforms and militarisation. GERMANY- More than 50,000 students expected to strike over Gernman rearmament policy. Sydney Peace Prize recipient shares her public education story.Great State School of the Week- Swan Hill College Radiothon is coming up soon! The DOGS have a arget of $4500- if you are able to pledge a donation, please contact the station (during business hours) on 03 94198377. Every dollar counts, pledge now and pay later, all donatioons over $2 are tax deductible. Help keep 3CR and the DOGS on air for another year.www.adogs.info
s Annual Radiothon is coming up soon! The DOGS have a target of $4500 to reach by the 13th of June! If you are able to pledge a donation, please visit-www.3cr.org.au/donate or call 03 9419 8377 during business hours (Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm). Every donation, large or small, counts and keeps 3CR on air.
s school system is driving inequality, not fixing it. Over-worked and under-paid- teachers escalate action. What does disadvantage in Australia look like? In some schools, Chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has some teachers worried. Overseas- Why education in Tunisia has stalled since 2023, E.R.R.C. takes legal action for Romani refugee children who are denied education. School infrastructure inquiry travels to Perth.Great State School of the Week- Aspendale Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
s strike to support their educators. Over 40 schools marched with the teachers and the DOGS are excited to tell you about them.Great State School of the Week- Sandringham Collegewww.adogs.info
Victorian teachers and Allan government on collision course. Resource increases in NSW private schools out-strip public schools. Teaching in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain. Australia needs the Humanities now more than ever. Defending Public Education requires more honesty, not less.www.adogs.info
s school voucher gold rush. Dog-eared page turners- canines help young readers.Great State School of the Week- Bondi Beach Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
in Australia. Africa- Chalk, Courage and Climate Change. Latin America- At the forefront of chess in education policy.The public school parents fighting the flight to private schools.Great State School of the Week- Glebe Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
s Annie McLoughlin from the Stick Together program (WED 8:30AM) and Solidarity Breakfast (SAT 7:30AM) for generously sharing her audio from the event.www.adogs.info
teachers locked out by broken system. International students accuse Australian Government of treating them like ATMs, after fees for one Visa doubles without warning. Middle East- effects of war on students. Brazil- Use of questionable AI software in the classroom.South Sydney High School named on the HSC Most Improved list for second year in a row.Great State School of the Week- South Sydney High Schoolwww.adogs.info
- Private school enrollments grow despite costs.Mozambique- NGO denounces government approach to higher education. UAE- Moving Spring break for schools and universities. US- San Diego school lay-offs expose union betrayal and the deepening assault on public education.Great State School of the Week- Rowville Primary School
s first DEAFBLIND Class created in mainstream public school.Great State School of the Week- Abbotsford Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Exploring phone-free schools.State school teachers threaten to strike as pay talks stall.Great State School of the Week- Romsey Park Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Government funding still stacked against Public Education. Teachers priced out of the classroom. Public school staff to stop work on March 24th. US- Texas Democratic Senate Candidate James Talarico speaks to Stephen Colbert about Separation of Church and State. VANUATU- Teachers advocate for increased and sustained investment in public education. Great State School of the Week- South Melbourne Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
measure.Great State School of the Week- Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS)www.adogs.info
ll keep you updated.. Public education makes economic strength for parents. Caro on How public schools will start the year. Parents look for ways to save as they start the new year. US- Knowing your rights in your school district, plus violation of amendments. The quiet slide in school attendance. Great State School of the Week- Mortlake Collegewww.adogs.info
campaign- more details. Impact over income - a striking number of Gen Z-ers are becoming teachers. AI- in teaching, plus fears of a social divide. School meals - Where Australia falls behind. UK- Teachers walk-out over working conditions in Manchester. Korea- Korean language studies become a mainstream choice, India-specific textbook project. Remote schools claims National Arts honours. Mt Lockyer teacher wins award for Noongar coding.Great State School of the Week- Mt Lockyer Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
US Supporters of Public Education fight privatisation, Celebrating Traditional K-12 Public Education.SPECIAL- We talk with teacher Chris Jobe about the new WHY NOT NOW? campaign, seeking 1.25M signatures,calling for the full funding of public schools NOW. To join in and be part of this campaign, please contact Chris at -fullyfundpublicschools@proton.meCensus shows that inequaity endures. OS- Papua New Guniea, underpaid teachers, South Africa- A focus on improving schooling.Great State School of the Week- Mickleham Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
s Collapsing Education System.Great State School of the Week- Kempsey High Schoolwww.adogs.info
- Public school staff rally at parliament. Challenging the Narrative. New research uncovers emotional burden carried by public school principals. OS- Argentia: cuts to public education after US cash injection Lagos: Developing a competetive public education system. Back in Australia- Education leaders urge media to end harmful school league tables.Great State School of the Week- Wycheproof P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
s Friday Green Left Breakfast and Karina, awesome volunteer and 3CR Breakfast producer!)Great State School of the week- Essenden North Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Gonski funding is not scheduled until 2031, and even then is the BARE MINIMUM as it only claims to bring basic numeracy and literacy to 80% of students.4. The community NEEDS to support teachers in any industrial action they may be forced to take.Great State School of the Week- Beverley Hills Primary Schoolswww.adogs.info
NAPLAN league tables.UK- State schools surge in performance. AFRICA- Every child deserves foundational education DENMARK- Mobile device free Primary and lower-secondary school aggreement. Australia- The secret sauce powering the schools punching above their weight in NAPLANGreat State School of the Week- Springvale Rise Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
s teachers have a very heavy workload. OS- UK- Schools urged to trial 4-day week THAI- Thai and Finnish universities hold forum to advance Thai education sector GERMANY- Bishop releases education guidelines that affirm gender diversity. Australia- After 50 suspensions, Britnie ended up at a school of last resort. Experts say her success should be the norm.Great State School of the Week- The Pavillion Schoolwww.adogs.info
s Breakfast programming for their skills in obtaining the audio. Also huge thanks to Daryl Croke for letting us know about this important action.Great State School of the Week- Heidelberg Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
s ideological takeover of education, and much more. Empassioned speech from Tasmanian Teacher at a recent rally. A Melbourne school hired a chef and it was an instant hit with staff and students.Great State School of the Week- Wirrigirri Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
s most surprising STEM powerhouse.Great State School of the Week- Murrumbidgee Regional High School Griffithwww.adogs.info
. Teachers in Australia must not be over-burdened in anti-bullying response. Boosting equity and safety for Australian children (Content warning- mention of child sexual abuse) US- Nearly all state funding for vouchers in Missouri used for religious schools, Letter to Max WallaceGreat State School of the Week- Glenroy Collegewww.adogs.info
Government still considering recommendations regarding charities. SA public schools remain underfunded. How the ALP out-sourced the soul of higher education. How Australian schools are using AI in 2025. A Wyoming county learns an expensive lesson on banning books. US- Special education civil rights lawsuits. Landmark initiative to boost inclusive education in Australia.Great State School of the Week- Yarraville West Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
QLD public schools remain underfunded despite funding boost. Will teachers save our democracy? Trump officials reportedly consider selling student loan debt to private investors. UK- International Baccalaureate defunded? US- The activists who want to dismantle public schools are now running the Dept of Education - full article HERE Australian teachers resilient amid intense pressures. What makes an award-winning student well-being program?Great State School of the Week- Loganlea State High Schoolwww.adogs.info
s all-charter schools system is failing many families. Breaking up public schools is dangerously dividing the nation. Australian teachers left in the dark on managing student pain.Great State School of the Week- Loch Sport Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Faith school which bans women wearing trousers becomes state funded. Great State School of the Week - Birchip P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
The role of public schools in the current political climate. Potential for social progress undermined by attacks on universities. School funding - time to break the mould? Shoebridge questions over delay in proposed charities reforms. Productivity reforms must support teachers, not reshape their profession. UK- Private schools face Ofsted inspection cost hike US- Shocking efforts to end public schooling, American-Indian Border schools and Leonard Peltier. Great State School of the Week - Ultimo Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
USA's first religious "public" school. State school funding still falling short. New "super-bureaucracy" for schools- visionary reform or risky gamble? Tasmanian primary schools to be part of 'multi-school organisation' trial following a UK model. US- Nancy Flanagan on What I Still Believe About Public Education. Brazil- Ministry of Education, UNESCO and Hauwei launch open schools digital transformation projects. Australian kids prefer real life interactions over screens - research shows.Great State School of the Week- Suzanne Cory High Schoolwww.adogs.info
New NAPLAN results demand immediate funding increases in public schools. Victorian school staff protest $2.4B funding cuts to public schools. Don't blame AI for schooling decline. Australians evenly split on on teaching religion in state schools. US- Trump admin stops protecting students right to learn English Ukraine- Psycho-social and mental health in Ukranian education UK- Nurseries in schools. Growing change- a different kind of school garden program is improving student outcomes in Tasmania.Great State School of the Week - Moonah Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Backing for secular well-being officers on WA schools, in an effort to cease funding religious chaplain programs. After 15 months of negotiations and no pay offer - Victorian early educators start industrial action. Dr Anne Summers urges NSWTF Women's Conference to continue fighting to protect and advance women's rights. Why teachers are leaving the profession - and it's not about the money. UK- taking religious misogyny seriously in education. US- Why America still needs public schools. Inside Australia's School of the YearGreat State School of the Week- Hunter Sports Highwww.adogs.info
Something is rotten in Australia's tertiary education and UTS's suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces. Courses within teaching, languages and media, among hundreds more, to be slashed. School principals unite on bold national agenda. 90% of teachers "severely stressed"- study. Child safety rapid review finds safety education and best interests of children must come first. US- Conservative unaccredited "university" reaches classrooms with narrative that "slavery wasn't so bad" among other far right ideologies.Great State School of the Week- St Albans Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Helping Australia's teachers share lesson plans could improve stagnating student results- Productivity Commission says. Productivity Commission misses the mark- says AEU. Single largest lobbying event at Victorian Parliament targets public school funding cuts. How Australia can create an equal education system. Catholic teachers chase 37% payrise. US- !0 Commandments in public schools? and more. A victory for the right to read.Great State School of the Week- Merewether High Schoolwww.adogs.info
The importance of separation of Religion from the State in Public Education- the current American experience. Inadequate reporting process masking discrimination in federally funded school "Chaplaincy" roles - says RSA. Bonner on Lessons for Australian Schooling. Victorian public school staff representative rallies outside parliament house.US- Immigrant children in Oklahoma live in fear, Friedman -The World We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away, US College students eager to engage in the Liberal Arts. Back in Australia- Equitable, fully funded Education is critical for Australia's productivity.Great State School of the Week- Albert Park Collegewww.adogs.info
NSW Religious schools see 30% rise in enrolments in a decade and it's not necessarily due to beliefs. Christian schools welcome Northern Territory's anti-discrimination bill. NT teachers say religious exemptions unnecessary and harmful. Principals push for urgent reform to save schools. When AI audits scholarly record, what will happen to public trust in science? Headmaster of KIngs school extends leave after allegedly "clipping" pupil on the head. US- How the Trump administration weilds Federal Government power over Public Education. Updated program seeks to increase QUALIFIED school counsellor numbers.Great State School of the Week- Mortlake Collegewww.adogs.info
The plight of religious liberty in the US. Brindabella Christian College may have been trading insolvent for years. Catholic magazine attacks NSW Education Secretary. NSW state schools see rise in number of disadvantaged students. US- rise in extremists and hatred fomented by current Administration. AEU- Delivering an election victory for public education.Great State School of the Week- Creswick Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
NSWTF Conference speeches and decisions. Why AI skills should be taught alongside reading and writing. Principals call for change to Education research. Incels, misogyny, role models- what England's new relationships and sex education lessons will cover. UK- an American mum in the UK can't believe some things allowed by State school system (ignoring the fact that US charter schools do the same things) US- Abolishing the education department.Gret State School of the Week- Frankston High Schoolwww.adogs.info
How to disappear a problem- the school system has spent 50 years NOT fixing one of its central flaws. 20 richest WA private schools rake in nearly $50M in non-fee income. Wadonga teachers call for same pay and conditions as teachers across the border. US- schools brace for wave of parents seeking updates after Supreme Court ruling. India- religious intrusions into the classrom NSWTF Annual conference address.Great State School of the Week- Williamstown High Schoolwww.adogs.info
15 richest SA private schools rake in over $30M in non-fee income. Global solidarity with US educators. Thousands of Australian students to receive $331 for practical placements. AI revolution tests learning foundations. US- Catholic school fires teacher after husband's obituary reveals he is gay, and much more. Melb- inner city families deserve better plan for high school.Great State School of the week- Docklands Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Where did our pollies go to school and where do they send their kids? Cruel joke- tax concession drives donations to Australia's richest schools and must stop - critics argue. Private schools cry poor over new tax bills. Canada- proposed 'charitable status' changes ignite debate. US- Teaching immigrant kids in Trump's LA. UK - If you went to state school in Britain, do you feel life is rigged against you? Welcome to the 93%.Great State School of the Week- Ulverstone Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
50 richest Vic private schools rake in over $150M in non-fee income. Fury over Allen government's cuts to public schools. Three steps to help public schools. A Diplomatic insolence. US- 10 commandments in the classroom. A promising practical solution - Sydney's new schools-based therapy changes how parents and teachers deal with bullying.Great State School of the Week- Ingleburn Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
Trump and Republicans want tax-payers to fund their pet project - Private Scools, Further confirmation of funding denied to Victorian public schools by the Allan government. Why teacher expertise is irreplaceable in the age of AI. AEU statement on Gaza and Peace education. UK- High Court dismisses challenges against adding VAT to UK private school fees. US- Academics flee overseas to avoid Trump attacks on higher education.Great State School of the Week- Mortlake P-12 CollegePlease consider pledging a donation to 3CR's Annual Radiothon on behalf of the DOGS program to keep YOUR STATION, YOUR VOICE on air for another year. Visit www.3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
DOGS Annual Radiothon- Keeping 3CR Community Radio on air for another year!Private school, with $85M pool centre, gets all-clear for 3 times the federal funding of comparable schools. Power to expel students for poor behaviour outside of school criticised as adding to Victorian educator's workload. The tiny schools where evry voice is heard and excursions fit in a car. US- anonymous superintendent criticies Education Secretary McMahon, Willfully and knowingly making a mess of education.Great State School of the Week- Hoddles Creek Primary SchoolPlease consider pledginf a donation to the DOGS program for 3CR's annual radiothon. Visit 3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
Victorian Greens push for inquiry and urgent action to reverse $2.4B funding cut. Vic teachers escalate fight for government funding of state schools. Dozens of Vic public schools upgrades delqyed until after state election. Skills shortages and the teaching gap. Supreme court allows female students into Sydney private school Newington College. US- commandments in the classroom.Great State School of the Week- Sunbury Downs Secondary Collegewww.adogs.infoPLEASE consider pledging a donation on behalf of the DOGS program for this year's 3CR Radiothon.Call (during business hours) 0394198377 or visit the 3Cr website at 3cr.org.au/donate
United States Supreme Court blocks funding of religious charter schools. The worldwide debate over separation of church and state. Victorian public schools and vocational education the lowest funded on Australia.US- Oklahoma and charter schools.Great State School of the Week- Richmond West Primarywww.adogs.infoPlease consider pledging a donation on behalf of the DOGS program to help us stay on air for another year - 3cr.org.au/donate
The 4 big issues schools still face post-election. The culture 'wars' awaiting Albanese when parliament resumes. Labor promising fast action to stop student debt EXCEPT for ARTS students! Childcare is the latest failure in Australia's privatisation push. Teachers facing higher levels of secondary trauma. US- 100 days of corruption, theft and moreGreat State School of the Week- McKinnon Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Jason Clare and the Education portfolio. $4B sliced from Public school funding in Victoria. SCOTUS hearing re: religion and public schools. Australian Academics refuse to travel to US for fear of detainment. Trump VS Universties. US- the firehose of chaosGreat State School of the Week - Dimboola Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Election win for Public Education, win for TAFE, Significant increases in private school fees- Catholic school parents warned not to vote Labour or Teal. Money matters in education. Inside a Sydney school's $60m castle development. US- undermining education, charter schools.Great State School of the week- Birchip P-12 Schoolwww.adogs.info
No substitute for TAFE - AEU and NSWTF comment on Coalition plans for "tech" colleges and scrapping free TAFE. Hope as US universities find backbone against Trump's assault on education. Teachers starve while serving others. Senior Ballarat grammar students accused of striking younger peers. US - Title 1 legislation, a history of the US education department and Trump's education secretary sends debt collectors after students.Great State School of the Week- Corryong Collegewww.adogs.info
School funding agreements fail to guarantee full and fair funding for public schools. Worst paid teachers on Australia spoiling for a fight. More than half of Australia's school principals intend to quit. How Australia's "worst" school transformed after a public low-point. UK- "Academies" fuel explosion in school costs. US- Are community schools the positive disruptors public education needs? Great State School of the week- Bairnsdale Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
DOGS commend Murat Dizdar's defending public education and questioning the private sector. Independent schools put up a smokescreen to distract from over-funding. Dutton being the Temu-Trump and dictating what students are taught. US- Trump sanitising history.Great State School of the week- Lara Lake Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Billions of tax dollars later and religious schools rolling in resource advantages, yet still crying poor. Fears of Dutton's cut-price Trump approach to education if elected. US- wild policies, by amatuers, based on lies, Murat Dizdar fighting to stem the flight to private schools.Great State School of the Week- Woorana Park Primarywww.adogs.info
Charitable tax exemptions and resource advantages of private sector schools make a mockery of public school funding conditions, The emotional lives of teachers. US- Department of Education laid off one third of its worksforce.Great State School of the Week - St Arnaud's Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Trump push for school vouchers. GG Sam Mostyn a vocal advocate for public education. QLD signs the Better and Fairer Schools agreement for extra $2.8 B. Critical time for the future of fee-free TAFE. US- Education's eve of destruction.Great State School of the Week- Narrabundah Collegewww.adogs.info
Entrenching resource advantage for Private schools. Clare says the deal to fully fund NSW public schools is a decade overdue but will take a decade to fully arrive. The 50 public schools in Australia where parents pay the highest voluntary fees. Full funding of public schools is at risk if there is a change of government. UK- Lords vote against ending tax break for private schools. US- Musk on Department of Education - no such department exists.Great State School of the Week- Foster Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Research shows money matters in education. No student left behind with historic funding agreement in NSW. This agreement was immediately compromised when the shadow minister refused to confirm they would not commit to the agreement. US- Trump and the problematic origin of charter schools and voucher systems.Great State School of the week- Clunes Primanry Schoolwww.adogs.info
DOGS Special International Women's Day broadcast featuring great women activists for public education - Jane Caro, Dianne Ravitch and our own Jean Ely talking about her many years of activism and the fight for Richmond Girls SchoolGreat State School of the week - Melbourne Girls College ( formerly Richmond Girls School)www.adogs.info
Public school funding falls behind. NSW/QLD public schools losing billions as stand-off continues. Australian public schools voluntary fees surge almost 40% in 2 years. Private and Public schools - the ILLUSION of collaboration. US - new right wing 'reform' group targets school boards.Great State School of the week - Yarram Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
ROGS 2025 - Government funding for private schools outpaces public schools. Public policy failure as number of public school students falls to record low. Investment needed to reinvigorate school/family/community partnerships. Device donations. US- Trump dumpGreat State School of the Week- Casterton Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Should public schools be pathetically grateful for anything they get? (short answer NO!) Caro - Funding delayed is funding denied! Australian students brace for heat wave - is it true that schools close at 40*C? Pay and conditions win for Victorian TAFE teachers. US- NO Department of Education!Great State School of the Week - Trentham District Primarywww.adogs.info
Public schools bear the greatest burden of disadvantage. A road-map to navigating the ED-TECH landscape. Albanese promising fee-free TAFE (if re-elected)- how would that work? A teacher who told her Sydney Catholic school that she was transitioning, allegedly asked to move on and not given shifts. US- horrendous series of events, featuring an explication of the current dismantling of public goods ergo infrastructure including schools, threat to democracy and the world at large.Great State School of the week - Korumburra Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Finally a win for the public school lobby. Greens unveil $10B plan for FREE public education. Rising costs of education putting strain on Australian families. New review highlights gaps in the Tasmanian education system. US - Project 2025 well underway, purging public departments. A suburb with no houses gets $160M high rise school.Great State School of the Week - Wentworth Point High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Academics dancing around the "state aid" issue. Private schools call for national funding boost to offset new state tax. Elite private schools whine about cuts to their MILLIONS in over-funding. PHD students earning next to the minimum, discouraging new generations from further education. UK - small gain through taxes not enough to save broken state education.Great State School of the week - Mount Evelyn Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Winners and losers in Australian education. Over-funded Victorian private schools facing cash cuts.Understanding why Australian families choose private schools. Forbes high school helping students through adversity. UK- private school teachers may strike US- Devolution of Dept of Education, vouchers for a stratified society. Hearing impaired students excel in academic and leadership roles. Great State School of the week- Brisbane South State High Schoolwww.adogs.info
In defence of public education. Changes in charity status for private schools? No presents for state schools this year, Parasite - the private school trying to eat a housing estate. Active engagement in democracy. UK- developements on VAT case US- can Trump dismantle the education department?Great State School of the week - Barrenjoey High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Private religious schools depleting the public treasury by billions. T.I.M.S. results highlight need for increased funding to public schools. It's time to change the anti-teacher NAPLAN narrative. Significant gains for school members of the NSW Teachers Fedaeration. New Zealand - curriculam changes. US- power grabs by the religious right, pushing Christianity into public schools. Victoria's smallest Year 12 class celebrates unique school journey as VCE results released.Great State School of the Week- Balmoral K-12 Community Collegewww.adogs.info
Labor faces backlash over school funding promise. Best schools in Australia revealed as 2024 NAPLAN results are published. Australian primary school students score best ever result in global maths and science tests, despite pandemic disruption."They leave our school flying" - how one Sydney school is defying its disadvantage. Amazibng progress- How regional schools are breaking th elanguage barrier and helping students thrive. US- turbulent times in US public education.Great State School of the week- Delecombe Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Labor and Coalition sell out public education AGAIN. "The Better and Fairer Schools" Legislation passed by Parliament - the official version. The education sector's response to the legislation - "Weak-kneed Incrementalism". The Rationalist Society's response to the QLD government's plan to expand school chaplaincy. US- What McMahon's priorities as Education Secretary will be. Great State School of the Week- Chaffey Secondary College (features excerpt from Chaffey Senoir Chior end of year performance)www.adogs.info
Some public education wins in the US after the election. ACT wins extra schoolfunding. AEU welcomes continuing fee-free TAFE. Australia's in outer suburbs lacking in infrastructure esp. schools. UK- private schools aren't producing better students, state schools out-perform elite high-fee schools on the GCE level. US- wrestlemania comes to punlic education? As a parent's eldest child sits final exams, they are grateful for the teachers who helped parent the student.Great State School of the Week - Birchup P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
A Band-aid - Debt relief fails to address inequitable pricing of degrees. Labor's wiping of 20% off HECS barely moves the needle. Kids belong in school, not jail. Victorian schools losing out in the border battle for teachers. US- Trump's 10 point plan for US education now that the Lunatics have taken over the asylum.Great State School of the week - Colac Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Submission to the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee on School Funding Bill from Save Our Schools. Dizzying Paralysis- Two Sociologists and a Teacher Wrestle with Meritocracy. NSW Teachers endorse new salary agreement. US- Trump and the Department of Education. Sydney's little school project named World Building Of the Year.Great State School of the week - Darlinghurst Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
Education is a right - it should not have to depend on charity. New report examines the role of philanthropy in school funding. Should teachers have to pay for basic school items? Australian private school fees among the highest globally. Private schools opportunisitic attempt to lock in over-funding. Public schools underfunding debacle for all states and territories. Student debt relief for young Australians? Overseas - Education around the world UK - Under-funding state schools and class war?Great State School of the Week- Wycheproof P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Some good news from America in dark times. Jason Clare's Dead Parrot - Labor's national approach to schooling has failed, it's time for a rethink. "Needs Now For The Future" Discussion Paper Two. UK - Approved "free schools" being reviewed. US - Far-right candidates are trying to take over public schools around the country.Great State School of the Week- Ouyen P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Labor's amendment to education bill will not ensure full funding. Australia's school funding system is broken - here's how to fix it. Albanese government gets it wrong on TEACH for Australia. Why are some Australian students having to pay to do PE in public schools. Free school lunches in QLD? US - what Project 2025 really means for schools and much moreGreat State School of the Week- Box Hill Highwww.adogs.info
DOGS congratulate AEU on refusal to compromise on Albanese's school funding plan. AEU places ban on implimentation of NSRA. Money on the table - foregone economic gain from continued underfunding. Students moved to rented premises due to over crowding in CBD public school. US - how the 2024 election could reshape public education.Great State School of the week- University High Schoolwww.adogs.info
It's Pay School! - the price parents pay for their children's education. Privileges Alchemy - the Pivileged Few, power and the triumph of the wealthy. Getting schooling wrong - disadvantage goes hand in hand with social segregation. US - Notre Dame University's growing influence on the supreme court.Great State School of the week- Rochester Secondary Academywww.adogs.info
State Aid to Church Schools - A Cancer in the Body Politic. The religous school funding decision that flouted the constitution. Funding review for Melbourne private school swimming in cash, Tasmania signs federal funding agreement locking in inequality. US - a review of both parties education policies. UK - several different countries' emabassies criticise Government plan to levy a tax on private schools.Great State School of the week - Woodside Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Public schools could lose nearly $30 billion if stand off continues. Why the new plan for fairer schools will fail. How to make schools inclusive and safe in 8 steps. Kids are the victims of teaching aid cuts. UK - study about positive outcomes when students study music US - Chicago teachers want to transform their city into a system of care..Great State School of the week- Mt Waverley Primarywww.adogs.info
The history of state aid to private schools - a contested space. Vic rejects funding offer, creating a stalemate. The conditions that make being a teacher almost unmanageable. Majority of NSW private schools recieving morer funding than public schools. US - article on ending US culture warws and moreGreat State School of the week- Bungendore High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Fairer schools in a sea of inequity. Private schools serving the wealthiest families overfunded by $1 billion. WA schools defrauded by new funding agreement. Public schools killing off sport as private school facilities grow. UK- Uk among the nations who spend the least on early childhood education. US- Whichever side win the November election, US public education is in crisis.Great State School of the week- Yea Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Final part of "Australia's Public Education System - A Wastebasket?" - this paper was delievered at Melbourne University by Jean Ely, full paper available as Press Release 1020 on the DOGS website. Slippery Slopes - Chris Bonner's paper on troubling trends in NAPLAN. Cobbold on gaming the NAPLAN system. NT funding agreement features more fiddling of figures. UK- Welcome reform in OFFSTED US- School choice swindles demolishing Public education.Great State School of the week- Dandenong High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Part 5 of "Australia's Public Education System- A Wastebasket?" Naplan results intensify pressure to resolve funding stand-off. US - the extremely problematic stacking of conservative judges, Project 2025 and its frightening impact on public education.Great State School of the Week- Macleod Collegewww.adogs.info
Part 4 of 'Australia's Public Education System - A Wastebasket?' Jane Caro in how Australia helped shape Trump's education policy. 2024 Naplan results reveal effects of decade-long delays to public school funding. US- critiquing the conservative idea that the state needs to support 'choice' in education, ie. diminishing/obliterating public schools and much moreGreat State School of the Week- St, Arnaud's Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
NAPLAN results reveal 1 in 3 students are not meeting basic literacy and numeracy expectations. Joint statement on school funding. Early childhood educators to receive conditional pay boost.. How charter schools became politically isolated. US - after years of failed education reforms, Chicago embraces community schools. NZ - teacher warns NZ educators of dangers of charter schools.Great State School of the week - Phoenix P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Part 3 of "Australia' Public Education System - A Wastebasket?" . Religion, the Media, the State and a cancer in the Body Politic. Students suffer as governments brawl over funding. S.O.S.'s 3 point plan for funding public schools. US- Project 2025 seeking a return to white supremacy, patriarchy and theocracy. and much more.Great State School of the week- Colac Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Part 2 of "Australia's public education system - A Wastebasket?". Productivity commission exposes private school funding defects. Consitutional concerns on religious charities rejected. TAFE teachers 'stopwork'. UK- private school parents concerned over new Labour govt. + much more!Great State School of the week - Portland Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Part 1 of "Australia's Public Education System - A Wastebasket?" Part 1 of a paper by Jean Ely, delivered to Melbourne University. Private schools serving the richest Queensland families over funded by millions. Call for investigation into funding of Exclusive Brethren schools. Exclusive Brethren students exposed only to material that conforms to the church ethos. UK - the King's Speech and what it means for education.Great State School of the Week - Wonthaggi Primarywww.adogs.info
The privileged few - current funding of educational institutions contributing to a class-ridden society. Private schools serving the richest SA families. Lucrative building contracts for Exclusive Brethren schools awarded to church companies. Wealthy Exclusive Brethren schools raking in disadvantage payouts. Finland - education reforms US- bible teachings mandated in public schools.Great State School of the week - Hopetoun P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Private schools serving the richest families. Class warfare. Big picture models. US- culture wars in schools UK- Starmer's cabinet most representative of society ever.Great State School of the Week - Mansfield Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
World education systems- Germany Private schools serving the richest Victorians over-funded by millions. Independant private schools are the biggest rorters of NAPLAN results. AEU - fundinmg deals urgent! US- The rise and rise of Christo-fascism and the impact on education UK - if Labour win UK electionGreat State School of the week- Korumburra Secondary CollegePlease consider donating to the DOGS radiothon effort and help us stay on aiur for another year. Visit -www.3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
Needs policies are broken. Private schools serving the richest families are over-funded by millions. Schools debates are asking the wrong questions. England's top private schools own 38,000 hectares of land. Judge lashes Xavier College's troubling conduct in school abuse claim. US - small win in challenge to religious charter school. Big loss as Louisiana Governor forces public schools to display Christian 10 commandments.Great State School of the week - Avoca Primary SchoolIf you are able, please consider helping the DOGS reach our radiothon target by visiting - 3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
Full funding to give every child a brighter future. Naked capitalism - for profit charter school grifting. News from the UK as an election looms - removing charitable staus on private schools stirs up the conservative hornets nest. US- chaplains in public schools?!Great State School of the week- Whittlesea Primary SchoolPlease help us reach our radiothon target of $4500 by visiting -www.3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
More on education in Finland. Champions of public education. Lack of resources for disabled students in public schools affecting education outcomes. Cranbrook toxicity continues. US - supreme court and culture wars spilling over into public education.Great State school of the week - Phoenix P-12 CollegePlease consider pledging a donation to the DOGS radiothon effort so we can continue to support public education for another year.-www.3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
Education in Finland Part 1. No skills without TAFE. AND MUCH MOREGreat State School of the week - Swifts Creek P-12www.adogs.infoPlease consider helping the DOGS and 3CR on air for another year - www.3cr.org.au/donate
The state of school funding in Australia. NSW and QLD - urgent need for FULL funding, MINUS the accounting tricks! A caring economy. US- book banning UK - decline in arts enrolment from low SES students caused by lack of funding, leads to stoppage of funding!Great State School of the Week - Ararat Collegewww.adogs.info It's Radiothon time at 3CR and the DOGS really need your pledge to donate so that we can stay on air, defending public education, for another year. Please consider visiting-www.3cr.org.au/donate
The Federal budget holds no joy for public education. The NSWTF says - don't get angry - get furious! Action - an antidote for bad policy. Australian school students among the most bullied in the OECD report shows. International - why do people choose state or private education?Great State School of the Week - Stawell Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Education resource gap in Australia amongt the highest in the OECD. Private schoools admit that many grandparents are paying tuiton fees, exposing funding model defects. Students of social work, nursing, teaching with work placements are ot get weekly practical payment. Why have we been excluded? - students in vital health roles are unable to recive the placement payment. The State od TAFE. US and UK newsGrwat State School of the Week - Benalla P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Where did our politicians go to school? Ways to make Australian education more inclusive. Government to wipe out billions from hiked student debt. Funding for Australian students with disability woefully inadequate. Melbourne private school boys rank fellow students according to looks, including using all the familiar repugnant misogynist descriptors. US - book banning in the US threatens libraians with felonies.Great State School of the week - Swan Hill Collegewww.adogs.info
Hidden state aid billions- taxation exemptions. Private schools reaping thousands more than public schools in disability funding. Students with disabilities deserve better. How the rise of ADHD and autism have fractured Australian schools. Eulogy for Roydon Irvine - driving force and principal founder of Brinsley Road Community School.Great State School of the week - Caulfield Park Community Schoolwww.adogs.info
Can the public education system survive residualisation? $148m of funding slashed from NSW public schools forcing deputy principals back into the classroom. Stakes are too high for complacency. Life-changing funding deal signed in NT. US- Texas book banning gets nuttier, Lauren Powel-Jobs Reading scams.Great state school of the week - Heathcote Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Part 2 of our special talk with Senator Penny Allman-Payne. National School Resourcing Board review find $2 BILLION Coalition era loophole. Ban on public schools asking for parental contributions leads to millions lost. Slicing and dicing of religion from Archbishop Fischer. US- Reversing decades of corporate school reform in Chicago where the charter school approach has utterly failed.Great State School of the Week - Portland Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Part 1 of our special talk with Senator Penny Allman-Payne about the Greens education policy. The one report on teachintg you need to hear. A growing problem looms for Australian schools as teachers flee. US- Fundiong indoctrination in Christian Nationalist schools. Great State School of the week- Glenroy Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Private schools don't save tax payer dollars- so why not make them public schools? Ending the capital funding divide in Australian schools. Why these parents chose public over private schools. Newington College alumni chief ousted over controversial move to go co-ed. AEU delivers a sky high message. US - book banning and voucher names.Great State School of the week- Areyonga Indigenous School NTwww.adogs.info
Religious liberty, religious schools and discrimination. A public school teacher speaks out on why private schools should not exist. Government funding increases still favour private schools. US - Chat GPT and FrumpGreat State School of the week - Marsden Road Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
Australia's Education system - OOPS! NT school funding agreement is a landmark, but it;s NOT the full deal! Australian students struggling to put food on the table. Tasmanian political parties must step up for public schools. "School shopping" alive and well in Melbourne. US- Federal court says religuious schools must obey state bias laws if they take state money.Great State School of the Week - Debney Meadows Primarywww.adogs.info
Public education under threat in the US and Australia. Integrity of the Schooling Resource Standard is subverted by accounting tricks. Public school advocates warn Albanese that BILLIONS of dollars are at stake. Cranbrook Head resigns. US- Argument against voucher expansion. With democracy under threat, Ohio law-makers propose a new curriculum for capitalism, not democracy.Great State School of the week- Donnybrook Primart Schoolwww.adogs.info
Fallout from Cranbrook's toxic culture. 2 class system is a great way to entrench disadvantage. Caro on the fight for public school funding. Groundbreaking study confirms positive impacts of school funding. US- Two southern Governors write on the truth about vouchers. Plans for the next GOP president.Great State school of the week- Corryong P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Education minister must renounce accounting tricks and fully fund public schools. Public school advocates warn Albanese government there are BILLIONS at stake if it breaks funding promises. Labor's complete capitulation to elite private schools AGAIN. The funding wars are back. School funding in a time of teacher shortage. Information on the Australian Universities Accord.Great State school of the week- Apollo Bay P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Over $1 BILLION in overfunding the richest families and schools. Sydney private school $108m expansion plan. Schools with the richest parents are raking it in. Teachers, principals and parents unite in funding push. The record low enrolments at Australian government schools should ring alarm bells. Victorian TAFE students and teachers still lowest funded in the country. US- actual cost of vouchers as opposed to the touted cost. UK- reaction to proposed school merger that could lead to only religious options.Great State School of the week- Doreen Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
The Save Our Schools submission to Productivity Commission's inquiry into philanthropy. Simple idea : Fully fund public schools! School funding back in the news. US- Special needs kids not attending government schools go to 'unregulated' special education schools. Afria- Urgent need for action in education.Great State School of the Week - Wonthaggi PrimaryPlease remember - February is 3CR's Subscriber Drive! Subscribe today! Visit www.3cr.org.au/subscribe to find out how.www.adogs.info
Timid Labor politicians divide and rule. A battle brewing over public school funding . Teachers back Minns and Car in fight for education funding. School 'choice' is a lie - why private school vouchers do not work. Australian children with disabilities struggling now more than ever. US- LA bans charter schools from public school campuses. UK - following suit of US's Teach for America program by proposing the use of teachers with no degree in education.Great State School of the week- Cann River P-12www.adogs.info
Disappointing lack of progress from Federal government, accounting tricks shortchanging public schools BILLIONS. Why Australia should ban private schools. Australia continues to passively abuse disadvantaged students. US - Taxpayer money wasted on vouchers. UK - richest do not think they're rich enough - the haves and the have not yachts.Great State school of the week - Tarneit Senior Collegewww.adogs.info
How free are public schools? Charities and community groups help parents face the new school year. Impossible decisions as families prep for school. Summer - heat, cicadas and private school fee hikes. Australian students aren't trying in PISA exams, showing appropriate disdain. US- 'Dark' Money behind voucher push. France - Education minister caight out in lie about public schools.Great State School of the week- Essendon Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Opposition to religious charter schools in US. Productivity commission should recommend ending tax deductibility for private school donations. Schools funding and reforms panel- 5 key takeaways. Safety, fairness and privacy in AI. US- propaganda VS factsNo DOGS program on the 20th due to special broadcast of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulbouyheener Memorial on 3CRGreat State School of the week- Bright P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Politicians, official reports and commentariat seeking compromise in the state aid fiasco. "Dogs breakfast" philanthropy laws contributing to private school over-funding. New review makes groundbreaking call for transformation of Australian education. New report wants more funding and better support for Australian schools. Private schools show biggest decline in PISA rankings. US- extreme right groups like ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom) have destroying public education on thei agenda.Great State School of the week- University High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Sorrell and Dale chat about their respective state school experiences which are our great state schools for the week! These schools include Blackrock Primary(Vic), Mentone Girls Secondary(Vic), Sandringham Secondary (Vic), Glenmore State Primary (QLD) and Glenmore State High school (QLD). More public school NAPLAN wins! Neurodiversity in kids and education.www.adogs.info
Public schools out-performing their private school counterparts in NAPLAN. New Primary schools to open in 2024 to have new Indigenous names. Parents income segregating children. More on NSRA discussions. Demands to fully fund State schools to their full SRS entitlement. The great ATAR divide. Worldwide- The long-term efects of the covid lockdowns are now becoming apparent.Great State school NAPALN results being discussed in the mainstream media!Safe and joyful summer greetings to all from the DOGS team!www.adogs.info
PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) results justify need for funding overhaul of Australian Education. Analysis of PISA results by Save Our Schools' Trevor Cobbold and Finnish educator and scholar Pasi Sahlberg. A major review and recommendations for new NSRAs. ATAR results - when can students expect them and what do they actually mean? U.S.- Quarter of a century of vouchers in Milwaukee later and the promise of saving poor kids from failing schools is shown to be a lie. Between 2011 and 2021/22, 2315 Charter schools failed and closed in the U.S.Great State Schools - Public schools score high in VCE results!www.adogs.info
Report shows public funding heavily favours private primary schools. Australia's most disadvantaged students are up to 5 years behind their wealthy peers. Australian education in longterm decline due to curriculum as well as funding. AEU gives the disruptive classrooms report an F for FAIL, as it fails to consider complex issues at play. U.K. - Labor could abandon Sunak's maths reforms to focus on primary provisions. U.S. - Will Wyoming pass vouchers and throw public schools under the bus?Great State School of the week- Nar Nar Goon Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
New Rorris report shows gross public funding favouritism for PRIVATE schools. Less than half of the federal cabinet attended state schools, data shows. Australia's wealthiest private schools earned $4.8 BILLION in 2021. Private schools raising fees using the teachers' pay-rise as an excuse. U.S.- Bills proposed to create gag orders, stopping teachers from teaching about race, history, gender and minority issues. U.K.- Shadow Labor cabinet pledge to charge private schools VAT and use recovered funds for improving state education.Great State School of the Week- Granville Boys High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Swedish School's Minister declares "free" private school system a failure.-CONTENT WARNING- violence towards women perpetrated by men.Power and Violence in Private Schools - The cultural problem of minimising bad behaviour of young men and shielding them from real-world consequences, a real focus on maintaining reputation by playing down sexual harassment within the elite school culture, to protect market share value. HELPLINE INFORMATION1800-RESPECT = 1800 737 732MEN'S REFERRAL SERVICE (a counselling service to help violent men take responsibility for their actions) = 1300 766 491KIDSLINE = 1800 55 1800SAFE STEPS (for women experiencing violence) = 1800 015 188WIRE (Women's Information and Referral Exchange) = 1300 134 130Why some schools are a step ahead in addressing student's mental health needs. US - 'Heritage Foundation' - an extremely well-funded right-wing wishlist of conservative agendas to be implemented on the first day a new Republican president is elected, including restrictions on education and the teaching of critical race theory, sociology, science etc. Great State School of the week - John Monash Science High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Identity politics is destroying our public schools. W.A. Teachers Union calls for NAPLAN to be scrapped and for more regulation on independent schools. The plan to tax international students. Christian home-schooling group targets "woke" (ie. INCLUSIVE) and "idealogically driven" public education despite religous schools, themselves, being DRIVEN BY IDEOLOGY! AEU says we need more than a recruitment campaign to solve the teacher crisis - we need real investment in teachers. U.S.- A pro-charter school group finds ways to debunk the efficacy of charter schools. U.K.- Proposed VAT tax has panicked private school parents fighting for a place at the local comprehensives (state schools).Great State School of the Week- Bairnsdale Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Victoria's new Premier and Education minister's educational background. Private school funding model is increasingly incoherent and irrational. Government commitment to funding diverse and inclusive fee-free TAFE. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare launches the first faith-based education summit! National teachers roadtrip begins in Melbourne on World Teacher's Day. UK- Good outcome for public school teachers with a government commitment to payrise. US- Religious charter schools undermine foundations of public education and erodes civil rights.Great State School of the week- Yinnar Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Private boarding school in Alice Springs raises questions including conflict of interest issues. Attempts made to tighten rules around private schools accessing the Coalition's slush fund- the "choice and affordability" fund. The rich/poor gap in our schools is growing. The school funding wars - when the rich win, the country loses. US- Oklahoma Attourney General sues state to stop virtual charter school board opeing up a catholic school directly funded by the taxpayer. "Dark" money from billionaires pushing private schools. UK - Government silences education criticsGreat State School of the week- Harcourt Valley Primarywww.adogs.info
Victoria's public school among the most under-resourced while wealthy private schools hike up fees. Employment white paper- TAFE workforce must be supported to deliver initiatives and quality, fee-free TAFE is at risk without TAFE teachers. AEU petitions for paid placements for education students. US- tech fails to achieve education goals. UK- church leaders deny that their schools discriminate against kids with disability, despite the FACTS showing differently.Great State School of the week- Swinburne TAFE - Secondary offerings.www.adogs.info
Critique of Bonner and Greenwell's proposal to fully fund private schools- this is NOT the answer in a SECULAR public school system. Anglican dirty linen aired in sacking of Brisbane headmaster. Almost 1/2 of private school parents say they would consider switching to a better funded public school system. NSW governments commits to a pay-rise for teachers. US- Texas governor bullying for voucher schools, taking funds away from the public system. UK- Tories insist private schools need tax breaks but experts say they're already rolling in cash.Great State School of the week- Cann River P-12www.adogs.info
New Schools Agreement must embrace key principles for school funding including fully funding of public schools by 2028. Private schools sue families for fees. Why are university degrees in Australia getting more expensive? Education minister backs advocacy group for religious chaplains in public schools. US- Bad news for students when charter schools close, and they close often as they are run by fly-by-night profiteers with little care for the welfare of students, let alone education! UK- REVEALED- UK Department of Education keeping files on education experts known for challenging the government and blacklisting outspoken critics as unsuitable.Great State School of the week- Omeo Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Fully funding private schools is NO SOLUTION to equity in education. NSRA consultation paper. The fallacy of genetic determination of inherited cognitive abilities. Hail Australia's public school P&Cs and their tireless fundraising. US- the movement for public schools is NOT dead!Great State school of the week - Edgars Creek Primarywww.adogs.info
Top private schools' exorbitant enrolment fees, parents paying up to $7k before even paying tuition fees! OECD report highlights unmet needs in Australian public education. Public school teachers spending their own money due to underfunding. Free university degrees to entice students to study teaching? US- Right wing idealogues produce Sub-prime voucher schools in church basements and strip malls where academics is not the priority. Malaysia- the debate around public and private schools rages.Great State school of the week- Rooty Hill High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Historical boost to teachers pay in NSW to tackle teacher shortages. On closing the divide between urban and rural student outcomes in Australia. Ruth Bader Ginsberg and her dedication to the separation of church and state. NSW determined not to repeat the mistakes of the former Coalition government by swearing off the regional school mergers that created "super-schools". The importance of saving libraries in schools - school libraries are an ally to students needing to escape and we cannot let them vanish. US- Extremist right-wing conservatives conspire to create distrust in public education, but parents see through these attempts to create disunity. UK- Call for reform of state-funded "faith" schools.Great State School of the week- Upper Plenty Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
NSRA doomed to fail, as all "needs" policies have. AEU calls for more secure jobs and better pay. Excerpts from a report from the Australia Institute on the case FOR investing in public education. US- School vouchers being used for trips to Disneyland and TVs UK- dodgy building materials used in schools cause closure of over 100 schools.Great State School of the week- Glen Huntly Primary www.adogs.info
Teachers Unions and Pubic school supporters need to be congratulated for successful lobbying BUT... Fully funding public schools can more than pay for themselves in longterm social benefits. Bonner asks - What happened to Gonski's schools? Teachers and staff at University of Melbourne to go on strike. US- devaluing teaching profession and teacher shortages. UK- Lifetimes of debt and the commodification of education.Great State School of the week- Warragul Regional Collegewww.adogs.info
Labor reinserts the commitment to 'secular' education in national policy. Stats show that without enough teachers Australia won't make the grade. Lindsay Connors writes about a better, fairer school system. Teachers turn up the heat on the Minns government. US- Extremist secretary of education trying to take control of Tulsa schools.Great State School of the week- Beveridge Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Teacher shortages and the state aid issue. School autonomy and social justice in education. Labor threatens to remove 'secular' from education policy wording. US- Private/charter school teachers do not need any formal degrees or education training. UK- time to end mandatory Christian belief to enter publicly funded schools.Great State School of the week- Whittlesea Primarywww,adogs.info
Lawsuit attempts to stop the USA's first religious public charter school. Clarion call for equity. SA school's religious request baffles jobseekers. Bush classroom boom. UK- increases in high-fees life altering for parents and students, entrenching privilege is bad for social cohesion. US- Is education reform dead? Reaganomic lies expand charters, increasing loan debts.Great State School of the week- Elsternwick Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
The Gonski dream - How can governments restore trust in public education? State schools suffer while St Posho's build 'wellness' centres with taxpayer funds. Increased funding has enabled private schools to attract teachers, public school principals say. NSW public schools in disrepair as capital works funding fails to materialise. A Utah high school student ignored his parent's church teaching and had pre-marital sex leading to the parents attempting to sue the public school! UK- tax breaks for private schools cannot be justified. US - LIES exposed in Reagan era 'HOAX' report that changed the US educational landscape.Great State School of the week - Greater Shepparton Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Australian press and the education funding issue. The Saturday Paper editorial on Class warfare and the LIE that private schools take pressure off the public school system. Where is the Accountability? Indigenous kids bear brunt of inequality. One nuclear submarine could fund the SRS to 2040! U.S.- North Carolina G.O.P. pass bill to increase funding to charter schools, at the expense of public system. India and the GEN report- a rise in private actors violates child education Act.Great State School of the week- Orbost Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
The politicisation of teacher education. Private school funding has increased twice as much as public school funding in the decade since Gonski. How competition is ruining Australian education. US- Pandemic relief funds spent on anything BUT education UK- removing the tax free status of private schools. Great State School of the week - Rockbank Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
The DOGS submission to the current NSRA inquiry - a history of education funding in Australia. The GINI co-efficient and where Australia sits on an international income inequality scale. UK - Faith schools almost entirely funded by the state and actively proselytising "discipleship" using taxpayer funds. US - For profit charters proliferate since Trump setting up "classical" vs "progressive" education, with "classical" actively downplaying the effects of slavery and climate change. A school community publicly declares their inclusivity and progressive values via an optional uniform featuring indigenous and pride flags, making them this week'sGreat State School of the week - Cheltenham Secondary Collegewww,adogs.info
Entanglement of religion and state in Australia- research from the Rationalist Society. Another NSRA inquiry. Labor softens on payroll tax. Private school principals to have pay scrutinised. Press release from the AEU. UK- Education Union seek to increase teachers wages. US- Charter schools siphoning funds from public schools, separation of church and state crumbling. Teaching hellfire in public schools.Great State School of the week - Sunshine Harvester Primarywww.adogs.info
Bonnor and Greenwell's "Common Framework" only a partial solution. Good story/ bad theory with a failure to check privilege. Damning evidence of massive private school overfunding- 40% of private schools get over 100% of their SRS! (features excerpt from ABC's 7:30 Report's Connor Duffy) US- Supreme Court refuses to rule on whether Charter Schools are public or private. Northern Ireland- huge funding cuts to public education must be reversed. Sth Sudanese refugee teacher Aloya Stella Oryang in Uganda on the value of teachers.Great State School of the week- New Preston High Schoolwww.adogs.info
What's going on with rural students beyond NAPLAN. The type of school matters when it comes to a child's academic performance. Elite universities favouring the privileged. "Nuclear reforms" needed says Labor MP to weed out dodgy VET providers. US- Vouchers in Ohio, and wealthy students using vouchers more than low SES students. UK- finding that faith schools foster unfairness with "on your knees, avoid the fees" culture building as families game access to faith-based schools. AEU Vic win pay battle.Great State school of the week - New North Melbourne (Errol St) Primarywww.adogs.info
RADIOTHON SHOW! Includes full regular program.The sectarian elites who determine Australian education funding policy. Under-funded public schools suffer as rising inequality in the Australian school system leads to drop in the standard of education. Billions of Catholic revenue should be tapped to fund the sex abuse crisis. OECD recommends banning using religion as an entrance criteria to educational opportunities. US- "Sharp Turn Right" as new Oklahoma virtual schools teach Catholic doctrine in EVERY subject UK- Tories argue that adding VAT to raise revenue will net little - the same arguments the Australian right wing uses!Great State School of the week- Wollert Primary SchoolThank you ALL for your radiothon pledges! You can pledge at 3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
Labor drops the word 'secular' from the education section in the new draft on policy platform. Private schools cry poor at payroll tax proposal. Victoria waters down proposed payroll tax on high-fee private schools. NSW Dept of Education pay $10 Million to 'consultants' for 'expert' advice. Selling out our education system to for-profit multinationals. A growing NSW town, an unbuilt $71 million high school and short term politics.Great State School of the week- Braybrook Secondary CollegePlease help the DOGS and 3CR stay on air by pledging a donation on behalf of the DOGS to our radiothon effort. Call (03)94198377 during business hours or visit www.3cr.org.au/donate All donations over $2 are tax deductible and you can pledge now, pay later!www.adogs.info
Victorian budget to introduce a payroll tax for high-fee private schools- recognising them as the FOR-PROFIT businesses that they are! Poor little rich people in UK complain about state students taking university places. International students in Australia going homeless and hungry. US- Texas says no to voucher legislation, with vociferous support coming from pastors wishing to maintain separation of church and state. Australia's Public Education day advocates speak.Great State School- Broadford Primary SchoolNOW is the time to donate to the DOGS annual radiothon effort for 3CR! Call (during business hours) (03)94198377, or visit www.3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
Privatisation of Australian education by stealth. What happens when rural classrooms close. A pandemic silver lining as some disadvantaged students improve during covid. Government on notice to fulfil its commitments. Vested interests threatening proper funding of public schools. US- crusade against "woke civics" with any mention of race being deemed CRT (Critical Race Theory) by extreme right. UK - Climate change in Christian textbooks.NOW is the time to pledge your donations to the DOGS for 3CR's 2023 radiothon! Call (03)94198377 or visit www.3cr.org.au/donate Pledge now, pay later! All donations over $2 are tax deductible.Great State School of the week- Gisbourne Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
"Every School, Every Child" press release. Central Australian schools to get record funding boost. Budget implications for education. Significant win for temporary teachers seeking permanency in NSW.U.S.- Charter schools' dismal educational outcomes and lack of accountability. UK - Unsuitable housing affecting educational outcomes for low SES students.Great State School of the Week- Keilor Downs Collegewww.adogs.info
Who are the new NSW education figures? Meet Pru Car, education minister in NSW and Murat Dizdar Acting Secretary of NSW Department of Education. Educated and exploited - student loan schemes still weighing heavily after more than 20 years in debt. One family fights back after debt collectors come knocking. Small Catholic school closures show that money is not being directed where it's needed. US- "Snapshot days"- the pupil headcounts that affect funding and how the voucher system rorts this. Illinois withdraws state funds from institutions that ban books.Great State School of the Week- Laurimar Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
"Choice and Fairness"- copying the US voucher system and its undermining of public education in Australia. Another attack on separation of church from state through education funding. Unequal funding in Australia and continuing teacher shortages. US- obfuscation of public inquiry in voucher failures.Great State School of the week- University High Schoolwww.adogs.info
AUE rejects OECD contention that discipline is a problem in Australian classrooms - the report makes clear that fundamental and enduring inequities are to blame, yet mainstream media uses this as an opportunity to engage in teacher bashing. Full report here-https://www.oecd.org/publications/education-policy-outlook-in-australia-ce7a0965-en.htmTime for timid thinking is over. Climate crisis in education. Sydney catholic school paid almost $400 000 to the mysterious Arthur Thorogood. U.S. - right wing extremists battling book access, some arguing closing school libraries altogether because of some already reviewed books references to critical race theory and supposed sexually exlicit material. Great State School of the week- Tallarook Primary schoolwww.adogs.info
The tax system and entrenching inequity. What happened to the fair go in Australia?Full clip of "What happened to the fair go in Australia?" , including charts mentioned, available here-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67BqsyCBl8sPrivate school in hair-cut fiasco. Fair access to justice for those who have been illegally discriminated against. U.S. Florida governer DeSantis' extreme right wing idealogy and the war on progressive thinking. U.K. - response to U.S. book banning.Three families who send their kids to STATE schools explain why it is their preference- and it's NOT about cost.www.adogs.info
Vic Shadow Education Minister Bach's ideas on educational needs - his thoughts on ideology in the classroom, suggestions that Victoria needs MORE selective entry state schools and the idea that 'positive' education is driving teachers away. NSWTF press release shows that record numbers of teachers are leaving the profession. U.S.- "Our democracy is not a theocracy- YET"- church and state separation barely exists with male politicians governing women's bodies..Great State School of the week- Officer Primary Schoolwww,adogs.info
Labor's glacially slow movement on issues of inequality in school funding - ANOTHER panel of experts to look at NSRAs will be convened. Private school building boom sparks a backlash from local communities - while public schools rely on temporary, portable, demountable tin sheds for classrooms wit no funding for capital grants in the foreseeable future, private schools pour millions into orchestra pits, castle-style libraries, olympic swimming pools and sports centres. Locals demand consultation as residents worry about over-developement. Wealthiest private schools are breaching student caps by the hundreds, affecting traffic levels, locals' views among other community issues. The schools have been going over their caps for years because they are BUSINESSES, some charging up to $40,000 per student, so why would they turn a CUSTOMER away? U.S.- right wing groups white-washing the history curriculum taught in public schools.Great State School of the Week- Flowerdale Primary schoolwww.adogs.info
A look at the NSW Minns Government- ALL NSW Ministers are public school alumni EXCEPT for the education minister! Some education funding policy figures that may shock you- Unless you are a regular listener to the DOGS. Chris Bonner and Peter Morgan compare Labor's education positions in their article "The Labor Essayists- Chalmers, Rudd and the Failing Market of Schools". Teachers urge better pay, flexibility and less admin to attract newcomers to the profession. AEU - on how the climate crisis impacts young lives. U.S.- Florida governor legislates vouchers to charter schools for all students, without limits, devastating public schools. With no accountability around curriculum, outcomes and funding aquittal, voucher and cyber-voucher schools are ripe for the rorting. Great State School of the week- Braybrook Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
The limited scope of the Productivity Comminssion's frame of reference EXCLUDES millions in donations and investment income for private schools. The problem is with the productivity commission, not public schools and teachers. 50 of Australia's wealthiest private schools rake in millions in investment income. Shortage of resources and CLASSROOMS for public schools in NSW. "Is the "Harmony Week" rebrand white-washing systemic racism" asks the NSWTF. 20 years after invasion, what is the status of girls and education in Iraq today?Great State School of the week- Albert Park Collegewww.adogs.info
Teacher shortages the result of bad policy. Obscenely wealthy WA private schools investment and donation incomes not considered when calculating taxpayer support. Australia's teacher shortage is a generational crisis in the making. Victorian schools short 1000 teachers. U.S.- Culture wars target real PEOPLE, not ideas. Pasi Sahlberg on Australia's education system. Great State school of the week- Craigieburn Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Religious discrimination legalities in private schools. Obscenely wealthy QLD private schools' investment incomes and donations examined by Charities commission. Edmund Rice Education issues apology to parents for breaching duty of care. Public Education Party NSW calls for help on polling day. Student/teacher ratios in public school are unacceptable. Public school NAPLAN results shine.Great State School of the week- Horsham Collegewww.adogs.info
The cost of unfair funding of public schools is huge to society at large. Roadblocks to fair funding of public schools. Greens attempt to introduce bill to remove the 20% cap on federal funding of public schools.Changing the conversation about property and schools U.S. - Conservatives curriculum cutters attack on sociology and equality awareness, stifling discussion of diversity and inclusion. . U.K. - Teachers strike: Labor analysis reveals the Tories' perfect storm creating teachers shortage.Great State School of the Week- Clayton South Primarywww.adogs.info
Private schools poaching public school teachers and raking in millions of taxpayer dollars on top of massive figures released by the charities commission. What we can learn about VET teaching from Nordic countries. State schools dominate list of NAPLAN high achievers.Great State School of the week- Peranbin Primary College Violet town campuswww.adogs.info
Calls to defund private and religious schools. Twinges of conscience from some religious principals while other religious school groups oppose limitation on discrimination in hiring and firing practices. Private school principal stood down for encouraging teachers to join a union. Councils asking for public access to private school facilities because they do not pay rates and the facilities are paid for with public money. Are the high costs of private schools justified? U.S.- book restrictions lead to halted access to libraries making students literally weep and teachers despair. World- helping Afghan girls access education, helping refugee children and children suffering the effects of natural disasters access education.Great State School of the week- Derrimut Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
NSW Public Education Party established. Data shows that private schools have the biggest funding increases AND the biggest decline in results. NSW Labor Party announces commitment to end under-funding of public schools. State School principals plead for voluntary parental contributions. 84% of public school teachers spend, per annum, an average of $883 and 90% of state primary school teachers spend an average of $1110 of their OWN money on school supplies. U.S. - In Oklahoma, out-of-state billionaires fund the voucher system lobby. Diane Ravitch receives death threats over her pro-public school stance on education! U.K. - Ministers and Unions dig in amid widespread strike action across the U.K.Great State School of the week - Echuca Primary School a.k.a. 208www.adogs.info
Funding peculiar religious tenets - the Opus Dei saga. Why we should de-fund private schools. An unofficial tour of a school cements a teacher's career. U.S.- call to stop public funding of unaccountable and extremist, neo-nazi home school education. U.K.- gross underfunding leads to widespread strike action.Great State School of the week- Melba College Croydenwww.adogs.info
Back to school - nothing has changed to alleviate educational inequalities. Labor kicks funding can down the road by extending NSRA. Back to school costs forcing low SES families to opt for cheaper SUBJECTS and uniforms. Private schools sending debt collectors to families who are unable to pay. U.S. Examining the under-pinnings and pitfalls of "school choice". U.K. - parents urged to help teachers win the battle for jobs.Great State School of the Week- Woodend Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Reminder of past inequities shows continued current public school disadvantage. Private schools continue fee hikes with largest increases in 5 years. Finland schools teaching kids to spot misinformation. A Bondi school is finding ways to improve use of time. U.S.- conservative groups fail propositions for voucher system. U.K. - A view on the UK being a hostile place to bring up kids.Great State School of the week- Pylalong Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Billions of taxpayer dollars going to the purple economy. Gross underfunding of public schools continues with no chance of reqching their SRS in sight. Disadvantaged students strive and thrive despite under-resourcing. U.S.- School communities united create better schools, climate change sciences introduced as a permanent subject.Great State School of the week- Elphinstone Primarywww.adogs.info
This week we have a look at just a few of the great state schools we have featured throughout 2022. The schools featured in this are-Coburg High School, Churchill Primary School, Carlton Primary School, Coburg Primary School, North Melbourne Errol Street Primary, Coodanup College, Hazelwood North Primary.Final Great State School of the week of the year- Templestowe College or T.C.www.adogs.info
Church abuse of public schools via fund squeezing. Labor betrays public schools with no change to funding agreements in sight. Why are there few to no poor kids in Legal Studies? U.S.- Skirmish over voucher system in Texas. Bogus claims that public schools indoctrinate students.Great State School of the week- Horsham Collegewww.adogs.info
Education ministers MUST commit to fully funding public schools. Private school enrolments increase. Some private schools offering cash for high marks. U.K.- Strike action and Tory education funding failures. U.S.- Voucher system damaging to student outcomes. Flood affected students shine out in the face of adversity.Great State School of the week- Echuca Collegewww.adogs.info
Eulogy for Dr Richard ElyState aid to private schools has a devastating effect on student outcomes. Our public schools in crisis. U.S- Dan Rather's Tribute to Teachers U.K- Independant sector tax status had no moral ground.Great State School of the week - Nossal High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Private school principals are CEOs worth more than the Prime Minister. NSWTF protest action against Perottet government's teacher's wage cuts and increase in workload. U.S- Texas conservative school board candidates fail to get elected. Charter schools disrupt sound education policy.Great State School of the week- Newport Lakes Primary SchoolMusic- Purcell- Dido's Lament and Schola Cantorum's La Date Dominumwww.adogs.info
Victorian education fail with overt achievement gaps between high and low SES students. Systemic dismantling of TAFE weaken VET in Australia. U.S.- Right-wing groups purporting to be parents attempt to undermine confidence in public education. U.K.- Art, drama and language cut from state schools due to underfunding.Great State School of the week- Whittlesea Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Special consideration for VCE students doing ATAR in flooding areas. U.S. religious discrimination against trans/NB kids in schools. NSWTF rally for TAFE. U.S. - Charter schools and the Texan right. U.K.- Music program for disadvantaged students.Great State School o fthe Week- Mildura Primary SchoolMusic - Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Schola Cantorum's La Date Dominum and Paul Robeson's Joe Hillwww.adogs.info
Dutton makes politics of the curriculum and does some teacher bashing. IPA joins in and launches a campaign to attack public school teachers - WHY?! Perrottet stance on teachers creates more shortages. NAPLAN - a blunt instrument fails the delicate task of marking humanities. U.S - NEAP (their own blunt instrument) fails just like our NAPLAN.Great State School of the Week- Bright P-12 CollegeMusic - Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Paul Robeson singing Joe Hillwww.adogs.info
Vic government woos private school vote with $717 million package. Fighting for the next generation. Chris Bonner's "Schools in crisis- solutions in disarray". Restoring equity in school funding- as though it were ever equitable to begin with! U.S. -book banning in Missouri.Great State School of the week - Glenroy Central Primary SchoolMusic - intro, as always, Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copeland. A choral piece by Schola Cantorum called La Date Dominumand finsihing, as we do each week with Paul Robeson's version of Joe Hillwww.adogs.info
DOGS high court case re-examined by media other than 3CR as religious schools flout Section 116 of the Constitution openly. Inequality leads to inequality in results for students. Great State school of the week -Hoppers Crossing Secondary Collegewww.aogs.info
Breaching Section 116 of the Australian Constitution. Bonner and Greenwell on the Productivity Commission's interim report. UNbeaching the whale- STOP funding private schools with public money. U.S. - Charter schoools and privatisation.Great State School of the week- Brunswick Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
SPECIAL: Featured audio from the Australian Fabian's web seminar "Should All Australian Schools be Public?", with Chrius Bonner and Tom Greenwell, co-authors of Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed its Schools. For visual charts accompanying the seminar, visit - https://theconversation.com/still-waiting-for-gonski-a-great-book-about-the-sorry-tale-of-school-funding-178016Find out more about the Fabians at - https://www.fabians.org.au/More about the seminar at - https://www.fabians.org.au/schools_funding_20220914Special thanks to the Australian Fabians, Chris Bonner and TomGreenwell.www.adogs.info
Élite school students acting up AGAIN as Knox's culture of entitlement endangers the community. The wealthy rob the poor via extraordinary tax cuts for the very rich which siphons funding from crucial public services such as education. Private school fees continue to escalate, some jumping by 50%, yet STILL they drain the public purse! U.S. - unions are gaining popularity in some states in recognition of the civil liberties they strive for on behalf of many minority and disadvantaged groups. The voucher and charter school system is rapidly losing support from the populace in other states.Great State School of the Week- Wandong Primary schoolwww.adogs.info
Apparent preferential treatment for Catholic schools? U.S. separation of church and state supreme court decision risks religious freedom. A petition to properly fund Coburg High school being tabled by legislative council. TAFE funding announcement welcomed by AEU. Eastern Sydney residents push for more PUBLIC high schools. Community schools in the U.S. and the public school tradition.Great State School of the week- Coburg High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Preferential treatment of religious systems. Why managerialism can't solve everything in schools. What does the dramatic fall in GCSe results tell us? That private schools are gaming the system! Tax cuts for the rich affecting public education and health services. U.S. - Will the George Dawson School in Texas ban the biography of its namesake because it speaks of slavery? The debate over critical race theory reaches ridiculous impasse.Great State School of the week- Kerang Technical High Schoolwww.adogs.info
The purpose of education. Corporations turning public schools into their workforce pipelines. Teachers crisis won't resolve until we end the game of political football. Deeds, Not Actions, from Angelo Gavriolatus. U.S.- far-right book banning hypocrisy finds the bible banned.Great State School of the week- Lyndhurst Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Teacher shortage won't be solved until we treat teaching as a profession, not a trade. Call to shed light on private schools' top salaries and their so-called 'charity' status. U.S.- public education essential to democracy, cyber-voucher system proving to be as dodgy as it sounds!Great state school of the week- Boolarra Primarywww.adogs.info
Labor chooses tax cuts for the rich over better funding for disadvantaged schools. Former school voucher advocate recants support in recognition that the voucher system actively destroys educational opportunity and outcomes. Private schools under pressure as LUXURIES are the first to go. Private schools accessing more and more disability funding due to their ability to hire staff who are specifically skilled in applying for disability funding, despite the fact that public schools do the heavy lifting when it comes to disabled and disadvantaged students. Great State School of the week- Sunshine Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Despite consistent attacks and rhetoric suggesting it's in decline, public education still serves at least 66% of Australian students. The continuing abject failure of neo-liberalism. Performance based pay foisted onto NSW teachers makes the teachers' crisis worsen. Australian people reject discrimination on basis of religion as more of the community identify as having no religion. Continuing the article on the Miseducation of Maria Montessori.Great State School of the week- Wallan Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Far-right and Coalition attacking and attemting to hijack the curriculum. State governments losing control over funding and policy in schools as the National Schools Reform Agreement begins. The detrimental effects of neo-liberalism on education.Great State School of the week- Malmsbury Primary schoolwww.adogs.info
State aid has proven bad for religion as census data shows that the nation has drifted away from Christianity. If you fail teachers, you are failing children. Hundreds of private schools overfunded by hundreds of millions, education economist finds. Ensuring the highest quality public education.Great State School of the week- Bright P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Whatever happened to the "FREE" in free public education? Record amount of parent expenditure on free state education! Ongoing teacher shortages. Jane Caro continues her response to the debate about the Chaplaincy program in government schools. U.S.- Arizona govt ignore the voting populace and continue to direct public fuinding to charter schools, despite an overt public vote against the move.Great State School of the week- North Melboure Primary (Errol Street) Primary schoolPlease continue to help the DOGS and 3CR stay on air for another year - www.3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
RADIOTHON SPECIAL feat. Fight for Survival - Cultural Resistance : Reasonable, Rational, Responsible - the story of Northlands Secondary College. We chat to historian Clare Land and instructor/activist Alexander Walker about the struggle for Northlands school in the 90s. The Melbourne museum is currently holding a special exhibition featuring students artworks, commmunity responses and the rousing speech from Gary Foley that united a community. Then, we talk about the battle for Richmond school, another great moment in the fight for public education. More on the exhibition - HEREGreat State School of the week - Richmond Girls CollegeHelp us keep the fight for public education alive and on-air by donating to 3CR's annual radiothon- at 3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
New Minister for Education Jason Clare- talking the talk, but will he walk the walk? NSW and VIC governments push Albanese government to boost public education. Education in times of conflict.Great State School of the Week- Cabramatta Public SchoolPlease help help 3CR Community Radio and the DOGS stay on air for another year by donating to our annual Radiothon-https://www.3cr.org.au/donatewww.adogs.info
Who is our new education minister Jason Clare? Public education day 2022. Public education activism jumps the class divide. Sick school reality as flu and covid continue to wreak havoc at schools. Scientology misleads parents at its schools via a Montessori link.Great State School of the week- Lysterfield Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Christians and the federal election- article by former bishop George Browning. Duplicities in funding from education minister (at time of recording) Stuart Robert. Plan to increase tenfold teachers with H.A.L.T. (Highly Accomplished or Lead Teachers) status by addressing remuneration. This election, both major parties ignore the education funding policy issue. "The parable of the amen-snorter and the rotten fish"- full essay HEREGreat State school of the week- Hume Central Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Despite public schools being in crisis, education is not an election issue for either of the major parties. Labor refuses to commit to funding public schools to 100% of their S.R.S. Australia's global education peculiarity- being the only country to fund private elite schools MORE than public schools! Labor proposes cash incentives for students with high ATARs if they becone teachers. And much, MUCH more...Just a friendly reminder- 3CR's annual radiothon is coming up and the DOGS will be asking YOU to help us reach our target! More to come as we get closer to RADIOTHON 2022!Great Sate School of the week- Hallam Senior Collegewww.adogs.info
Main parties ignore education as an election issue as Jane Caro and the Reason party platform on school inequity. NSW Teachers Federation strike action addresses teacher shortage. Scomo and the LNP's record on school funding. A big spend in Victoria on suburban schools. U.S. - Oakland's community schools closing, leaving maginalised groups with even less access to vocational education and training.Great State School of the Week- Leongatha Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
The history syllabus, ANZACs and public education. $10 billion more in overfunding elites- no surprises there. The education revolution you'll keep paying for. Skills crisis and the destruction of TAFE. I.B. results raising eyebrows with so many "perfect" scores. U.S. - Maths books and critical race theory?! Oligarchs destroying public education in America.Great State School of the week- Kew Highwww.adogs.info
BILLIONS in over-funding to elites- a closer look at figures for QLD and NSW. Morrison's building the unlucky country. Critical pedagogy in the age of neoliberalism. U.S.- Florida rejects MATHS BOOKS claiming they contain critical race theory, meaning that any mention of factual history is being actively censored.Great State School of the week- Hazelwood North Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Where major parties stand on education funding policy. Scomo and Roberts throwing public school children overboard with their "devil take the hindmost' approach to education. Chaplaincy program and religious discrimination bill. Exhausted teachers and principals leaving schools. U.S. - charter schools and mismanagement.Great State school of the week- Coburg Primarywww.adogs.info
State aid auction/election- neither LNP or ALP tackle inequity in education. Caro and the REASON party support public education. Research shows 130 private schools are OVER funded by $120 MILLION. The decade they killed TAFE. Vouchers in Ohio.Great State School of the week- Bendigo East Collegewww.adogs.info
DOGS remind us of the importance of separation of church and state. Jane Caro and Chris Bonner discuss Chris' book "Waiting for Gonski" on Jane's weekly webinar session Reasonings with Jane, full discussion available here-https://www.janecaro4reason.com.au/reasonings_with_jane_hard_lessons_newswww.adogs.info
ScoMo says taking care of public schools is NOT HIS JOB! Gonski on Gonski and its failed implementation. AEU easter uprising for TAFE. Private college closes on students via TEXT message, giving them one week to organise alternatives or they face fines and debt! Queanbeyan students only allowed in the classroom for 3 days per week due to covid, teacher shortages and myriad other issues created by underfunding public system. UK- Liverpool students have no public schools due to state funding of religious schools! US- charter schools hiring unqualified teachers.Great state school of the week- Carlton Primary schoolwww.adogs.info
A DOGS 1988 press release proves to be depressingly relevant. Still waiting for Gonski. Money works in education. The devastating impact of the Morrison government on TAFE. U.S. conservatives bemoan excessive INCLUSIVITY in curriculums, using gag orders to halt any progressive conversation.Great State School of the week- Churchill Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Celebrating Dr Martin Luther King, staunch advocate for separation of church and state. Hopes of Gonski reforms dashed by the LNP. A tale of two schools - David Gonski reflects on how education shaped his life. Prairiewood teachers walk-out after the education minister walks in.Great State School of the week- Coburg High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Private schools NO LONGER save the government money, if they ever did! Why Australian schools are lagging behind the world's best. Victorian school boom is losing steam. Going to a private school will not make a differnce to your kids results, study shows.Great State School of the week- Point Cook Alamanda Collegewww.adogs.info
Religious liberty comes at price. Private school funding increasing at 5 times the rate of public school funding. Private schools gamiong the International Baccalaureate system.Great State school of the week- James Ruse Agricultural High schoolwww.adogs.info
Multinational businesses that are elite private schools. Pressure on Labor to fund public schools properly, to at LEAST the SRS. Religious discrimination bill survey shows those identifying as christian disagree with discrimination against LGBTQIA+ community. U.S.- the historic link between racial segregration and school 'choice'.Great State School of the week- Kerang Technical High Schoolwww.adogs.info
QLD school discriminates against LGBTQIA+ community. Schools behaving like churches with taxpayer dollars. More elite schools ripping off jobkeeper and making record profits. The cost of education in Australia. U.S. schools defying Younkin's "optional" mask mandate and remaining masked up!Great State School of the week- Swan Hill Collegewww.adogs.info
Covid and going back to school. A Q&A session on going back to the classroom this year. Albanese's $440 million for schools? S.A teachers strike action. Covid and returning to school arounf the world.Great State School of the week- Warnambool Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Obscene rorting of jobkeeper by elite schools shows a sense of entitlement that knows no bounds. Record profits for private schools coming from millions in government plague funding. Teacher shortages as governments treat the profession as glorified baby-sitters. U.S. invites parents to substitue as teachers, disregarding security checks and qualifications.Great State school of the week-South Melbourne Primarywww.adogs.info
NAPLAN proves no difference in educational outcomes between public and private schools. COVID and school communities- kids and vaccines. Adjusting to change. Peter Greene on U.S. charter schools.Great State School of the Week- Kew High schoolwww.adogs.info
Morrison and religious discrimination. Sacked for being vaxxed. Shameless greed of private schools with BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars in jobkeeper creating record profits for the elite schools. How much are teachers really worth? NSW teachers strike! Ravitch reviews new book The Privatisation of Everything on the failure of neoliberal market theocracy.www.adogs.info
It's been a year since our beloved Robert Ely passed away so this week we pay tribute to his activism, his enthusiasm and his legacy. We also pay our respects to long term DOGS member and supporter Margaret Nilsen, whom we sadly lost recently. Much love and respect to all their loved ones, please know that their efforts will forever be part of the struggle for educational equity and their legacy will be felt for generations to come.If you would like to find Jean Ely's special presentation From Karmel to Gonski: The Quest for Equality in Australian Education, please visit the DOGS website at www.adogs.info
Private school fees or house mortgage? NSW teachers strike! School production goes ahead after 10 attempts. ALP commitment to TAFE students. School mental health services.Lifeline - 131 114Beyond Blue- 1300 224 636Great State School of the week- Kangaroo Ground Primarywww.adogs.info
Public school teachers taken for granted despite being essential workers. NSW teachers strike in battle for pay. Teaching scholarship FAILS. Inequities in school funding in the U.S., vouchers schemes and defending public schools in Missouri.Great State School of the week - Warragul Regional Collegewww.adogs.info
Separation of church and state - just what IS a religious school? Private schools rorting jobkeeper, making record profits. For-profit early childhood education sector ripping off the taxpayer, delivering dangerous and substandard services while making huge profits. NSW teachers have had enough and are making a call for action. Government refusal to pay teachers leads to shortages.Great State School of the week- Drouin Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Taxpayers funding religious schools' ability to discriminate. Legal analysis of the religious discrimination bill. ScoMo spends millions on De La Salle elite school. Help for special needs students being gamed by private schools. More on the book urning in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Richmond Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Religious discrimination bill. Taxpayers fund religious schools while state schools go without. Jobkeeper rorting at elite private schools despite record profits. OECD PISA results prove to be dodgy. Book burning in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Moe Elizabeth St Schoolwww.adogs.info
State Schools Relief donation fund started to give disadvantaged students much needed IT access - more info here: State Schools ReliefState schools left behind by SRS imbalance. Exhausted teachers fight for payrise. Students protest toxic patriarchy of private schools that bleeds into the public realm. Anti-vax teachers in Mullimbimby Steiner school. A win for public school teachers against neoliberal far right in the US.Great State School of the Week- Berwick Lodge Primary SchoolDonations to provide laptops, dongles and IT equipment to students via STATE SCHOOLS RELIEF fund here- https://bit.ly/3mDrfly and https://www.gofundme.com/f/access-1000?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customerwww.adogs.info
Where our politicians went to school and the pathways to parliament. Nobel research points to greater need for investment in education funding. The misguided and wasteful policies directed towards indigenous and disadvantaged student in the NT.Great State School of the Week - White Hills Public School, Bendigowww.adogs.info
The odious over-classes judgement on the so-called 'proles' from Pru Goward. Cassandra Goldie's responding call to stop stereotyping the poor. Historians criticise Tudge for playing politics with Australian children after his attack on updating the curriculum to include sensitivity to First Nations history.Great State School of the wekk- Cohuna Secondarywww.adogs.info
A "Fairer Education Policy" political party emerges. An extremist cult accesses $9 million in jobkeeper in a private school. $1 billion shortfall in Victorian state schools. A staffing crisis in NSW schools sparks a walkout.Great State School of the week- Woorana State Primarywww.adogs.info
Private schools continue to rort billions of taxpayer dollars. Teachers deserve better. Projected teacher shortage in the future.Great State School of the week- Ballarat Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
The purpose of public education, lessons from the U.S. The AEU and NSWTF respond to the politicising COVID . Study shows that public school students exceed their private school counterparts in University outcomes. October is dyslexia awareness month- the AEU website includes links to more info here.Great State School of the week - Epping Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
A win for U.S. public school activists. So-called "charitable" charter school RORTS. As English schools open, COVID spreads. The expensive truth about private schools. The Hyde Street Youth Band use technology to play!Great State School of the week- Footscray Primarywww.adogs.info
Just how much teachers are worth. A bill to prevent religious discrimination on the basis of gender/sexuality. OECD data shows that Australian public school teachers are overworked and underpaid, public schools dangerously underfunded. Just how much UNPAID work teachers do. Two Australian teachers nominated for international award for excellence on teaching.Great State School of the Week- Brunswick Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Privilege in time of plague as selective school principal goes against health advice. State aid dividing children along religious lines. Principals bullied, vilified and vulnerable.Great State school of the week- Fitzroy North State Primarywww.adogs.info
How free IS public education? Victorian parents spend record $400 million on 'free' education. Sleight of hand with taxpayer money going to elite schools. Teachers success despite adversity with a music class inspiring students.Great State school of the week- Ringwood Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Student mental health concerns as funding goes to chaplains, NOT qualified counsellors, elite schools cue-jumping vaccinations AGAIN. Girls school in Afghanistan relocates to Rwanda.APOLOGIES for the poor audio quality at the start of this podcast. It DOES improve later and the issues has been sorted for future recordings.www.adogs.info
Huge changes to the education scene in Chicago with the de-funding of their charter system. Part of a discussion on the racist history of standardised testing featuring Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price, co-founder of MapSO Freedom School and Black Lives Matter at School, Wayne Au, author of Unequal by Design- High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality and Jesse Hagopian, author of More Than A Score, full discussion available here-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmd7OeXqRw0&t=7s Plus the flexibility of the public schools and their ability to adapt to their surroundings.www.adogs.info
Preferantial treatment of private schools with multiple vaccination scandals. Just who is eligible for vaccine and why has it taken so long for ALL teachers to be considered essential, while COVID gets real for politicians.https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/who-can-get-vaccinatedGreat State School of the week- Mt Alexander Collegewww.adogs.info
The history and fate of Gonski by Trevor Cobbold of Save Our Schools. Religious discrimination wins as a teacher gets sacked for being gay, despite the school receiving taxpayer money. The sad and messy end to Vocation abd the rorting of VET funds. Senior political economist Adam Rorris'report on investing where it matters- public schools.Great State School of the Week- Springvale Primary in Caroline Springswww.adogs.info
Community schools, OECD on career guidance, COVID lays bare the widening gap between the haves and have nots in the student population. NT has most UNDER funded public schools.Great State School of the week- Bentleigh Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Public schools for the Public good, why students shouldn't learn in a bubble. The educational and mental health effects of Covid on students. Why publishing results is a failure.Great State School of the week- McKinnon Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Satanic church demonstrates need for separate of church and state, equity in education, capital funding for public schools and much moreGreat state school of the week- Keilor Downs Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Vaccinations for public school teachers- how much do we value teachers? Statement on Australian curriculum from First Nations experts. Charter schools and church and state in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Williamstown Highwww.adogs.info
Elite school seniors get Pfizer due to ''clerical error'', old school ties, separation of church and state at risk in the U.S., consent education in schools.www.adogs.info
Extraordinary wealth of elite schools while accessing jobkeeper on top of more taxpayer funding. How schools can take part in NAIDOC- https://www.naidoc.org.au/resources/teaching-guides U.S. charter schools hit opposition in Texas. Local state schools never ending fund raising efforts. Great State School of the week- Fitzroy High SchoolWe still haven't quite reached out radiothon target so if you are able, please pledge and donate to the DOGS at 3CR and help keep community powered radio on air for another year. For more information go to www.3cr.org.au/donateFor more on the DOGS go to www.adogs.infoOr email us at dogsat3cr@gmail.com
Old school tie money, alarming capital funding figures headed to private schools while independent schools group cries poor.AEU seminar on The Infrastructure that Public Schools need - full audio here-https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=502855804255507&ref=watch_permalinkwww.adogs.info
Recurrent and capital funding of private schools show an obvious ratio of inequity. Separation of church and state virtually non-existent. Rudd on Morrison's Pentacostalism in public office.Great State School of the week- Victoria Road Primary School, LilydaleThank you to all those who donated to support DOGS and 3CR this radiothon. To donate online, you can go to-www.3cr.org.au/donateOr call 94198377 during business hours, Monday to Friday to pay by credit card/eftpos. Or send a cheque/money order to3CR P.O. Box 1277 Collingwood 3066To pay in person at 21 Smith St , please call in advance to allow for covid restrictions.www.adogs.info
RADIOTHON- pledge now, pay later! Donate online here-https://www.3cr.org.au/donatePublic schools do more with fewer resources. Regulators set to oversee boarding schools as a direct reslut of the Royal Commissin into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Teachers pushing for priority vaccinations as frontline essential workers.To donate to the 3cr radiothon you can call the station on 94198377, during busiess hours, Monday to Friday- credit card/eftpos.Or you can send cheque/money order to 3CR P.O. Box 1277 Collingwood 3066To pay/pledge in person, please contact the station prior in line with covid restrictions.www.adogs.info
RADIOTHON! Please help keep 3cr independent media alive! Donate on behalf of the DOGS here-https://www.givenow.com.au/cause442Economic argument for State aid to private schools is NO LONGER VALID. Archbishop Fisher admits Catholic schools are better funded than ever yet claims anti-Catholicism. Disappointment in managerial appointments in public schools, students missing out. The unfairness of ATAR.www.adogs.info
Public Education Day, TAFE shortchanged again, structural failure means Australian education keeps falling short.U.S. case of Religious schools using courts to be exempted from anti-racial discrimination laws. Private school for challenging students cries poor.Great State School of the Week- Oakwood Secondary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Public education day 28th May.Private schools a protected species with Morrison's blatant favouritism of private sector. Lack of transparency in accountability of where YOUR tax dollars are going.Great State School of the week- Kensington Primarywww.adogs.info
Tudge fudging figures, former privatiser changes sides as facts don't match rhetoric, exhausted public school teachers after covid,, private schools axe staff discounts.Great State School of the Week- Reservoir East Primary
DOGS remember Jack Farrer. Memories of public schools that only exist through community action. The Burston Strike School. Northlands Secondary College. We talk with Stephen Jolly about the fight for the Richmond school in the 90s as the Kennet government tried to close over 300 public schools.www.adogs.info
Government deniability, not accountability. Morrison abandons needs-based funding. Tudge on the bludge!www.adogs.info
Believing in Public Education. The moral vacuums of professional politicians, Lobbyland and Morrison's minders.www.adogs.info
The big FIVE challenges facing Australian Education. Lessons learned from Covid. The art of APOLITICAL research from the Australian Council of Education Research (ACER) - NO mentions of Cobbald's figures and reducing disparity between schools. The long tale of under-achievement in Australia.Great State School of the Week- North Melbourne Primary (Errol St)www.adogs.info
This week we concentrate on parents and teachers and whatever happened to free education? Parental contributions to state schools reach record levels. https://theconversation.com/some-public-schools-get-nearly-6-times-as-much-funding-thanks-to-parents-117268A small win for teachers treated unfairly during the pandemic. Teachers vindicated and receive backpay using the power of their UNIONS. Teachers- join your unions!Great State school of the week- Westall Secondary College in Springvalewww.adogs.info
Coalition claims the 'school funding wars are over' despite all evidence to the contrary! Education minister Alan Tudge makes extraordinary declarations and motherhood statements as we continue to be outperformed by our neighbours.Finland again sets the example.Great State School of the Week- Wandong Primary SchoolFor more information on the Professional Development sessions in association with Finland's Tempere University visitwww.micklawrence.comwww.adogs.info
The stranglehold of elite private schools on the corridors of power in Australia - the graduates of elite schools and their networks inherent in Australian politics.Gross under-funding of public schools as parents pay record amounts for 'free' education.www.adogs.info
TAFE, booming enrolments in the public school sector, profiteers in the pandemic. FUNDING MATTERS - end capital funding inequality NOWwww.adogs.info
The Integration of private into the public sector - the marriage of 2 completely opposing objectives: one public, one private. The private sector is publicly funded ot the fullest extent while the public sector is underfunded o the extreme.Part 2 of our talk with Mick Lawrence, author of "Testing 3-2-1: What Australian Education ca learn from Finland"find out more atFacebook group- What Australian Education can learn from FinlandMore on the Professional developement sessions available to ALL teachers - www.micklawrence.com www.adogs.info
CONTENT WARNING- the first half our program contains references to sexual assault/violenceThe culture of entitlement - sex and private schools- your taxpayer dollars at work.If you are effected by any of the issues raised in our discussion please contact-Lifeline - 131114Confidential information, counselling and support on sexual assault, domestic or family violence & abuse- 1800737732 Part 1 of our talk with Mick Lawrence, educator and author of 'Testing 3-2-1: What Australian Education can Learn From Finland'What Australian education can learn from Finland- facebook groupwww.micklawrence.com
Catholic leader McInernerny calls equity in education a think-tank fantasy while Finland proves it can be a reality. Finnish teahers flexibile to students needs with the attitude that real winnes DO NOT COMPETE. micklawrence.comwww.adogs.info
NAPLAN and PISA and big business. Emphasis on testing limiting achievement rather than learning. Never too late to study. Gifted students with disability benefiting from NSW High Potential and Gifted policy. Tudge appointment to federal education minister does nt bode well for public education or society at large.Please SUBSCRIBE now to 3CR, YOUR community station.www.3cr.org.au/subscribewww.adogs.info
School "choice" movement only exists as an extension of racial segregationists - U.S. model exempifies this. Good news stories from Australian teachers in public schools adapting to regional challenges, detention centres and special learnign needs. So-called independant schools never satisfied despite over-funding.Includes audio from "Education Review" podcast by Wade Zaglas, featuring Michael Lawrence, teacher and author of "Testing 3-2-1: What Australian education can learn from Finland"-https://soundcloud.com/educationreview/finnish-education-is-coming-to-australia-michael-lawrencewww.adogs.info
Neo-liberal policies and TAFE. How much does private education really cost you, the taxpayer. Auditor General's report. Students únenrolled'from private school because a parent questioned their practices.Includes audio from the AEU panel discussion on the Issues Shaping the Education Debate from 25th November, 2020. Full audio available here-https://www.facebook.com/AEUfederal/videos/172322944541837www.adogs.info
Private school business plans are suffering from the pandemic wobblies as insecure middle class parents rethink enrolments due to the jobkeeper and mortgage holiday coming to an end. Teachers being impacted by the private school fee freeze. Massive tax-payer over-funding of private schools due to Morrison government ignoring contributions from Grandparents plus much more.www.adogs.info
Planning laws give private schools open slather on expansion, local be damned with no recourse to action through VCAT. Sydney Grammar developements. No functional social mobility in Australia.www.adogs.info
Rorting in th U.S. of public pandemic aid funding. Education unions in the U.K. Dux of Dandenong. Latham and One Nation directing funding policy in NSW?www.adogs.info
The failure of 'contracting-out' to the private sector- analogous to hotel quarantine fiasco. Verdict on contracting out is damning. The digital divide widens equity gap. Super school fail - featuring audio from WIN news segment.www.adogs.info
A look at neo-liberalism in Sweden and its negative effects on education. The decline in equality of opportunity in Australia since decentalisation.Also includes more audio from AEU web seminar on inequality in fundint in Australia's education system. Full audio available here-https://www.facebook.com/AEUfederal/videos/172322944541837 www.adogs.info
Rush to re-open public schools puts U.S. educators at risk as more than 1 million U.S. kids have COVID. A year to reflect upon- Angelo Gavriolatus shares his thoughts.Featuring audio from the AEU web seminar 'The Issues Shaping the Education Debate' including talks from Michelle O'Neil and Emma Dawson.Full seminar available here-https://www.facebook.com/214994251994406/videos/172322944541837 www.adogs.info
Private schools deign to either reduce or freeze school fee increases due to COVID-19. Private schools are adjusting their post-pandemic business plans.We continue with Jean's presentation of "Karmel to Gonski: The Quest for Equality in Australian Education", which took place on the 25th of November. Today we conclude with the Question and Answer session.www.adogs.info
This week we feature a special paper given by Jean Ely to the History Fellows group at Melbourne University on 25 November 2020 as a tribute to Robert Ely, who died on 19 November 2020 after a long battle with cancer. The paper- From Karmel to Gonski: the Quest for Equality in Australian Education, was presented to the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at Menlbourne University.
OECD data shows under-resourced public schools do AS WELL AS over-funded private schools. The powerful multi-national corporation that is the Catholic Church demands BILLIONS in taxpayer dollars, adding to its already enormous assets. Federal government provides BILLIONS in a 'hygiene fund' for private schools to return to class- ZILCH available for public schools.www.adogs.info
Special AEU web seminar on School Funding Inequity.Full video, including Mr Rorris' slide presentation available here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpDLvK7wvAw&feature=youtu.bewww.adogs.info
Basic principles of equality/ needs, TAFE, youth mental health and UK conservatives vote to let disadvantaged children go hungry.www.adogs.info
Deliberate tax avoidance, property deals by education businesses and childcare- can 4 year olds make or break an economy?U.S. "originalists" in the supremem court.Great State School of the week- University Highwww.adogs.info
The charity scams that are private schools, enjoying BILLIONS in tax concessions and exemptions. Private online education businesses trying to take over face to face learning.Great State School- Lilydale Highwww.adogs.info
$19 BILLION shortfall in funding to public schools, while privae schools funding is increased.Rorris report shows alarming figures-http://www.aeufederal.org.au/application/files/9916/0161/2192/AEU188_Public_Expenditure.pdfwww.adogs.info
OECD PISA FAIL for Australia, grandparents paying for private school fees, TAFE reform, the flawed business models of private schools, a response to Shore apologists.https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/pisa-2018-results-volume-v_ca768d40-en;jsessionid=_dlu2pfWuyF3eQ3w3mED5gYZ.ip-10-240-5-54www.adogs.info
Teachers, like health workers, have put in the hard yards during this time of plague. Meanwhile, privileged kids demonstrate contempt for our community.Audio from talks including from Daceyville Principal Michelle Hostrup available here-https://www.gie.unsw.edu.au/videos-podcasts/gonski-20-how-will-we-support-and-value-professionGreat State School of the week- Halls Gapwww,adogs.info
Inquiry into the value of teachers' work, OECD disparity comparisons and plutocracy.www.adogs.info
Abominations, policy crimes, rorting and discrimation against a student with disability- just another week in Australia's education INDUSTRY.
Inequality in time of plague as Catholic schools cannibalise their own. Catholic indenpendent funding authority diverting public funds away from their intended poorer schools to richer flagship schools. Catholic bureaucracy has its own models of 'neediness''- the mechanics of how Catholic funding authority takes from the poor and gives to the rich, short-changing 'poor' schools.
Why is it that the most advantaged complain the loudest that they are disadvantaged? Kings College fighting for sports exemptions! Privateers a.k.a licensed pirates leave students with massive debts and no qualifications, as the punlic sector celebrates National TAFE week. Part 3 of talk on Privatisation of Education.Priavtisation of Education discussion in full available here-https://www.gie.unsw.edu.au/fighting-privatisation-education-how-are-parents-teachers-and-activists-successfully-fighting-forces-are-privatising-us-public-schoolsNational TAFE week voices in celebration-http://www.aeufederal.org.au/TAFEDAY2020www.adogs.info
What happens to private schools in a failing market economy?Part 2 of discussion on Fighting the Privatisation of Education, featuring Jane Caro, Angelo Gavriolatus, Pasi Sahlberg and Diane Ravitch. Full video available at-https://www.gie.unsw.edu.au/fighting-privatisation-education-how-are-parents-teachers-and-activists-successfully-fighting-forces-are-privatising-us-public-schools www.adogs.info
Piccoli and primary schools and making private public in access. This week's program includes audio from an online forum about fighting the privatisation of education. Speakers include Jane Caro and Diane Ravitch.full video available here-https://www.gie.unsw.edu.au/fighting-privatisation-education-how-are-parents-teachers-and-activists-successfully-fighting-forces-are-privatising-us-public-schoolswww.adogs.info
Covid shutting the business models that are private schools. The bureaucratisation of education.Great State School of the Week- Mornington Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Education as commodity (always a bad idea). One student shares his impressions of home schooling.
Xavier College closes. Taking advantage in covidinous times- private school money grab. UK education system under scrutiny as inequalities become glaringly obvious..www.adogs.info
The coalition's commitment to vocational funding is conditional- we look at the devil in the details. Coalition sensitive about private school expenditure of public money and the rorting of needs based funding.AEU President Angelo Gavriolatus on Black Lives Matter.
A new phase in the state aid debate as more people come around to DOGS way of thinnking, recognising inequity inherent in current system. Coalition just following orders.Great State School of the week- Keilor View Primary
Separation of church and state in the U.S. has been turned on its head with the U.S. Supreme Court decision re: Espinoza vs Montana. Reactions to the ruling, its moot status and Betsy DeVos's new low. In Australia, funding for private schools has grown 15 times more than public counterparts. Cate, a special needs student, is expelled by a private school- parents take the school to court.www.adogs.info
State aid and school enrollments. Large numbers of students have no access to the internet at hoe. Kids going back to school- state schools forced to reurn. U.S. education with Diane RavitchGreat State School of the Week- Brunswick East Primarywww.adogs.info
The effect of plague on disadvantaged schools and students. Jobkeeper payments and priests. U.S. education and charter schools ripping off the taxpayer.www.adogs.info
May 28th- Public Education Day- recognising the role public education plays in society. Black Lives MatterTurnbull and catholic hypocrisy.Finally, we hear voices from AEU website celebrating Public Education Day, including-Craig Reucassel, David Zygnier, Sally McManus, Michelle O'Neil, Helen Richardson, Lara Golding, and David Hetheringtonauefederal.org.au/news-media/public-education-day www.adogs.info
State School values and private school business plans in time of plague. Business models for high fee paying schools will have to change. In the UK, thousands of priary schools snub the call to return to class. Pollies arbitrarily setting a return date to school- teachers say FAIL. Trump's bible walk.www.adogs.info
Cabbage Tree Island- a lesson in disadvantage as Covid 19 hits an island with few I.T. resources. Jean's experiences in the 1960s of this school that sits over 300 points below the average ICSEA value. In the U.S., Betsy DeVos siphons relief funds meant for public schools into private and charter schools- sound familiar? Numbers on enrolments in NSW show many exceeded caps.www.adogs.info
Living in the world of the egalitarian MYTH- 'Equality of opportunity' rhetoric in tatters. The World Inequality Database. Federal government gives millions to private schools for 'hygiene', with nothing for public schools. Disturbing article from Gary Marks about genetic predispositions, using debnked research, asserts those with low s.e.s. have inherently low intelligence- these ideas are part os Australian policy make-up!www.adogs.info
Documentary special on DOGS high court case of 1981 on ABC Radio National. A nation can lose its freedom in a day and not wake up to the fact for a century."The High Court Dog-Fight on School Funding"- part of the Section 71 - High Court Cases that Changed Australia series, presented by Patrick Keyzer, produced by Jane Lee, sound engineer Melissa May, supervising producer Michelle Raynerhttps://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/section-71:-the-high-court-dog-fight-on-schools-funding/12202220www.adogs.info
Matters of Church and State- Turnbull's memoir references the duplicitous and unaccountable 'needs' based funding, exposing the arrogance of the church. Bigger mortgages do NOT mean you are disadvantaged. Pell's knowing involvement with relocating predators and the Catholic church's refusal to be accountable for anything. Inequality is a feature of Australian education system. Janet Albrechtson's eugenics-like valuation of human lives: all lives are not WORTH the same!www.adogs.info
2 press releases! Advances of BILLIONS in funding to private schools- no mention of any special treatment for public schools. 80% of disadvataged students attend state schools, 90% of indigenous children attend public schools yet the insecure private education BUSINESSES continue to demand billions of taxpayer dollars. U.S.- movement to ban the inequitable charter schools system. No state schools= NO ECONOMYState Schools Relief- organisation attempting to aid public schools- www.ssr.net.au/schools www.adogs.info
Public schools are now, more than ever, a community hub, while the virus exposes the dodgy business practices of private schools. How private IS private when the public keep paying again and again, with private schools gouging recurrent taxpayers funds. U.S. Education Secretary DeVos is dedicated to destroying the public system as the Public Education Network and Diane Ravitch send an open letter to V.P. Biden calling for the elimination of the federal charter school program.Great State School if the Week- East Lodden P-12 Collegewww.adogs.info
Teachers asked to put their lives on the line- Morrison using public school teachers as glorified babysitters. Public school teachers at the front line of growing inequalities, growing concern for disadvantaged students. Public school teachers are indispensable to the wellbeing of our nation. Private schools scramble to guarantee ongoing funding, despite falling enrolments. Thank you for your patience with our production capabilities- we are now set up to produce our weekly DOGS program remotely ergo can podcast the available audio. Unfortunately, podcasts of the past 3 DOGS programs will not be available until we can access the station again. Apologies for any inconvenience, weekly press releases are available, as usual, from our website. www.adogs.info
The dangerous stupidity of constant assessment. Tehan THREATENS children with tests so he can say he's doing his job. Almost $20 billion of RECURRENT funding to private schools and now the 'Choice and Affordability' fund!The history of the 'test', from industrialisation to I.Q. tests.Great State School of the Week- Hornsby Girls Highwww.adogs.info
As the new funding model comes out, the Federal government decides to give more cash to Private schools with NO mention of public schools, passing the buck to the State governments. More than 1 in 3 children do not have access to the necessary infrastructure to succeed in education. This tells the kids- your government does not care about you. The MYTH of Equality. Funding exacerbating the disparity between private and public schools with non-government sector schools getting a $3.4 Billion boost, while public schools get NOTHIING. Over 80% of disavantaged students go to public schools and 90% of disadvantaged schools are PUBLIC. Philanthropy is NO WAY to run an education system! This generation is LESS well educated than the previous generation and that is a national disgrace.Great State School of the Week- ALL 90% of our Disadvantaged Public Schools www.adogs.info
The global privatisation of Basic education and Diane Ravitch's book "Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools". Justice Michael Kirby on the religious discrimination bill. Many religious people agree that this bill is a bad idea and agree that it is dangerous.Great State School of the Week- Bobin Primary School, NSWww.adogs.info
Last word on statistics- new figures (R.O.G.S.) show huge funding increases to private schools and cuts to public schools as R.O.G.S. overestimates spending on public schools. St Kevin's College supporting paedophiles DURING the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse! Mandatory reporting of abuse and the law. Federal and state funding.Great State School of the Week- Auburn High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Part 2 of Lies, damned lies and statistics with the Report On Government Services. Analysing numbers and people/funding processes- how is it in Australia that private schools get so much public money?- the functional processes that allow this disparity- while the public sector is still responsible for the majority of Australian children. Plus the Catholic Education Office justifies why they can't tell us where all the government funding for schools actually ends up.Great State School of the Week- Frankston State High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Statistics showing income disparity widening. Funding increases to private schools DOUBLED while every state has CUT funding to public schools. A public school student is worth 28% of a private school student according to the Australian government. Australia's bifurcated education system- one for the rich and one for the poor. A look at the education system in Dehli. Our OECD report is F for Fail- needs improvement!Great State School of the Week- Bendigo Special Developement Schoolwww.adogs.info
Foundational tenets of U.S. democracy- the separation of church from the state- the fundamental principle upon which the U.S. was built is being compromised - Espinoza Vs Montana. NO functional separation of church and state in Australia AT ALL. Education system in Canada is now leaping ahead of Australia. Article by Darren Walker, Ford Foundation- 'Charity won't fix inequity, only structural changes will". Charity is no cure for poverty. To educate a child in a CIVILISED nation is NOT an act of charity but an investment- education is a fundamental RIGHT of a child.Great State School of the Week- Chirnside Park Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Auditor General reports and funding rorts. Pork-barrelling of sports grants and the Bridget McKenzie matter."NEEDS" based policy is overtly GREEDS based policy.Book review- Diane Ravitch's "Slaying Goliath- The Passionate Resistance to Privatisation and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools".Why we have public schools in the first place- a brief history of public education in Australia- and the FIRST time we stopped funding to private schools. "If more than 10% of children in a society are educated in private schools, it can no longer call itself a democracy."Great State School of the Week- Ogilvie Girls State High School in Tasmaniawww.adogs.info
Meg Wallace's 'Sophistry of Religious Discrimination"- about priveling one religon. Separation of religion from the mechanics of running a country- in Australia and the U.S.. Sue Karzis from State Schools Reflief (Victoria) talks abo0ut this unique organisation assisting state school. See more at ssr.net.au or contact locally on 87698450Great State School of the Week- Sale College in East Gippslandwww.adogs.info
A brief history of education in the Australian constitution. Our Federal government's approach to what CAN be taught in schools... Also, why DON'T churches pay taxes and rates?www.adogs.info
Australian constitution is ignored (Sect,116) as government legislates for the furtherment of a particular religion. In the U.S. strikes over private school vouchers. "Back to basics" approach has become the problem, not the solution as the educationa gulf is widening.Great State School of the Week- Clifton Creek Primary School in Gippsland, which burnt down over the school holidays.www.adogs.info
The 'fantasy' that private schools save the government money- Tehan's own thinktank queries where all the funding goes, as Australian students no longer even reach the OECD average in mathematics. Teachers and teacher training. The situation in Chile. U.S.'s Devos wastes millions on charter schools that will never be built.Great State School of the Week- Box Hill Highwww.adogs.info
The DOGS predictions about the consequences of state aid are sadly coming true after 60 years of funding private education - segregation, loss of standards, loss of accountability and more. State aid undermines democratic institutions and is disastrous to our democracy. EVERYONE loses when schools are segregated. The MYTHOLOGISING of the Goulburn Catholic School strike in the 60s. Vocational training and educational RORTS abundant, yet noone has been charged with any fraudulent offences.www.adogs.info
Part 2 of 'The Real Cost of Private Education' by Thomas Orren. AFL and Private schools- 4 times more likely to get picked in the AFL draft of you are from one of eleven elite schools- the egalitarian nature of football is nowa myth, no longer a game for the PEOPLE. PISA shows Australian students are 3 and 1/2 years BEHIND their international peers in maths and sciences. The results are a wake-up call however they said that 4 years ago. And the 4 years before that. And the four years before that..Great State School SYSTEM of the Week- Estoniawww.adogs.info
Part 1 of analysis of 'The Real Cost Of Private Education' article by Thomas Orren. AFL and eduation- how private schools have taken over the AFL. Venture capitalists find that private schools in Australia are a HUGE money maker. $ = morals for capitalists.Great State School of the Week- Bicheno Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Federal government trashes and withholds funds from state schools while OVERTLY propping up private system. U.S.- Political victory for state schools in Kentucky thanks to tenacious activists. Dr Ian Hansen's mea culpa article. "Drought" package of $10 million ONLY for private schools- an elitist and exclusive package, boosting a system that is failing, ignoring 60% of Australian children because of ideology.Great State School of the Week- Glenferrie Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Shameless government indifference to poverty, inequitable drought funding. Religious freedom bill- dangerous according to Justice KirbyGreat State School of the Week- Wytaliba State Schoolwww.adogs.info
Taxation exemptions and private school rates- private schools and local councils. The Constitution of Australia and SECTION 116- our very own 'separation of church and state' clause- referenced by the mainstream due to religious discrimination legislation debate. How Private school fees effect the 'working' family- fee increases at twice the rate of inflation and wage growth.Great State School of the Week- Bagdad Primary School, Tasmaniawww.adogs.info
A look at Chile- culturally, educationally, socially - and the inequitable distribution of wealth. Private V.E.T. providers scam BILLIONS, leaving students in debt, without qualifications. Congestion costs os private schools. The Morrison government has been nothing short of a disaster for T.A.F.E..Great State School of the Week- Malvern Central Schoolwww.adogs.info
More on 'Engines of Privilege- The Problem with Private Schools' (Green and Kyneston). The consequence of funding decisions in the 60s is our bifurcated education system. So-called 'VALUES' of private schools questioned in article by Adam Voight on the reprehensible behaviour of St Kevin's students and the responsibility avoidance in the Principal's response. Catholic Church strips Parish Priests of power over schools in effort to keep billions of taxpayer dollars. Victorian education minister Merlino's game-changing funding to public schools.Great State School of the Week- Orbost Secondary College 7-12www.adogs.info
England's classist education problems examined in the book 'Engines of Privilege- Britain's Private School Problem' by Francis Green David Kynaston. Inequalities in Australia's education arrangements are getting worse. Accountability for the expenditure of public money is a basic democratic necessity, yet religious institutions receiving BILLIONS of tax-payer funds continue to thumb their noses at attempts to find out where the money has gone. Teachers and their role- the concept of the master teacher. Merlino's cash lure for teachers to regional areas.Great State School of the Week- Thomastown East Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
ABC Press Club debate on religious freedom/discrimination bill as opposition to the bill grows. Featured audio from Press Club Debate with Martin Iles (Australian Christian Lobby) and Fiona Patten (Ambassador of National Secular Lobby)Full debate available at -http://iview.abc.net.au/show/national-press-club-address Great Styate School of the wek- Telopea Park K-12www.adogs.info
Religious discrimination bill- unnecessary and dangerous to liberty including freedom of conscience and freedom FROM religious discrimination. Church schools wish to exclude children and employees on the basis of religious beliefs, sexuality etc which is unconstitutional. A religious school principal insults and attacks 16 year old climate activist while YOU pay his wages. Shepparton closing 3 schools and merging into 1 SUPER school. An analysis of private school advertising- images used in promotions show a colour-coded hierarchy exisitng in marketing material paid for by YOU.Great State School of the Week- The Western Austistic Schoolwww.adogs.info
England- Labor pledges to integrate private schools into the state sector if elected- top end 'grotesque levels of inequality' in education. Business people propose that students tax returns/centrelink/further education/employment data be used to decide how much money their former schools get! 'Outcome-based funding". Look at book "Engines of Privilege", about entrenching privilege.Great State school of the week- Gosford High School 7-12www.adogs.info
Government funded 'private' school enrollments decrease as public school enrollments increase substantially. The Australian government is ridiculously involving itself in theological debates- why we shouldn't mix politics and religion.Great State School of the week- Glenroy Specialist Schoolwww.adogs.info
Defenders of Government Schools weekly programme. Rob uncovers the reason for why the old school tie has lost its lustre as a networking device and reveals that medium range private schools are loosing customers. Jean discusses the move by an Australian Hindu organisation to officially question the right of elit religious private schools to exclude students of other religions.
Rationalists Society describes Australia as a soft theocracy with secular discrimination laws being used to further religous interests. An Article on a country state school reunion and the egalitarian nature of state school classrooms. NAPLAN- test results remain stagnant. More than 17% of year 9 students failed NAPLAN, falling short of minimum standards that are so low that they should be raised or scrapped. Education Minister Tehan's response? Scare the kids by threatening results to be put on permanent record!Great State School of the week- Ogilvy High School, Hobartwww.adogs.info
Between the Catholic, Independent and Public school systems, Australia has the 4th most INEQUITABLE education systems in the OECD. Catholic education and Ireland- children divided into Roman Catholic and State (Protestant), leading to sectarian troubles. The suggested divestment of religious patronage to schools will be slow going- Catholic education department fighting against diversification plans with campaigns of denial and misinformation. Sound familiar? Same thing happened here before Victorian election. Social segregation is just how we do schools in Australia.Great State School of the Week- The Virtual School Victoriawww.adogs.info
Capital grants to private schools- excerpt from ABC TV's The Drum featuring Adrian Piccoli. Infrastructure spending on all public works EXCEPT public schools! TAFE scandal- Australia's largest private training college collapses under the wieght of its shoddy practices, owing more than $100 million to the education department.www.adogs.info
ABC data shows evidence of gross and ridiculous inequities between private and public schools funding, taxpayers subsidising private schools more than 100% of running costs. $11 billion to be spent on just 10% of schools. Good state school catchment areas are now a marketable commodity- "finder" website.Great State School of the Week- Mulgoa Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
Reactions to the closure of Presentation College- reminders of the Kennet era attack on public education. $39 million of taxpayer money in recurrent costs has NOT improved results, leading to lower enrolments, then closure. Education in the U.S.- the "Walmart-isation" of public education- continuing Milton Friedman's ideology that frames schools as businesses and students as customers. TAFE and a record number of enroments.Great State School of the Week- Thomastown East Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
The closing of 'Presentation College' in Windsor- Systemic problems with tax-payer funding of private sectarian schools leading to more questions than answers. Education is a RIGHT not a privilege. Systemic misuse of government funds = corruption and fraud.Great state school of the week- Prahran High Schoolwww.adogs.info
The long-term price of state aid to private schools- INEQUALITY. Racism and the organisation of disadvantage in the Australian school system.Great State School of the Week- Braybrook College 7-12www.adogs.info
Who should Australia be learning from? The U.S., the U.K. or the Netherlands? TAFE- learning from Finland, lessons in vocational higher education. Carenna Haythorpe from A.E.U. on the future of public education in Australia, on teachers with passion for sharing knowledge and changing lives. More Save Our Schools facts and figures from Trevor Cobbald in Queensland education funding- queeensland public schools to only EVER get 91% of the School Resourcing Standard.Great State School of the Week- Taradale Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Government schools under attack from the Government itself! Trevor Cobbald of Save Our Schools makes it to the front page of the Age, blowing the whistle on educational funding deals between Federal and Victorian Governments. Using accounting tricks to rob state schools of billions- cumulative underfunding to the tune of $17billion- state schools indefintiely underfunded. Latham wieghs in to the education debate. Reforming reform.Great State School of the Week- Albuera St Primarywww.adogs.info
Diane Ravitch looks at Anand Giridharadas' book "Winners Take All- The Elite Charade of Changing the World" in terms of education reform. OECD report shows Australian public school teachers are the most innovative and creative yet the LEAST resourced. A U.S. case that threatens separation of Church and State. Trevor Cobbald looks at the facts about school funding in Victoria- government funding to non-government schools increased by $1500 per student per year while funding to public school students has been cut.Great State School of the week- Belmore South Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Australian teacher morale at an all time low- poor job security, lack of autonomy, 'new' teachers put in 'difficult' schools just some contributing factors. What is the role of the teacher in education? What was/is education for? Are we 'doing' education right? A short history of 'industrial' education. 21st Century educational needs have changed and new models are needed as standardised testing is NO LONGER RELEVENT.Great State School of the Week- Elizabet St/Moe Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Private schools and Australia's caste system. Toffee- a niche dating app exclusively for former private school students! A blast from the past- John Stuart Mill on secular education. Selling cupcakes to raise money for music lessons in public schools.www.adogs.info
This year's annual radiothon show recaps some of our Great State Schools as well the Students Climate Change Rally. Pledge your donations anytime at 3cr.org.au/donateFind out more about the DOGS at www.adogs.info
Religion and the election of the Morrison government- Thanking God for Catholic Schools! Religious people out in full force saying THEY are responsible for the elction of the Morrison Government. Using Christianity to build personal brands. A look at the U.S, and Bernie Sanders. Defending the SECULAR state. Debate around tax-payer funding of non-government schools.Great State School of the week- Whittlesea Primarywww.adogs.info
State Labour government following Morrison in support of private schools. WE are paying for PRIVATE PROPERTY with funding of capital works in Catholic schools. Recurrent funding for public schools should be prioritised over non-government schools. In New Zealand 50 000 primary and high school teachers strike over low-income and conditions. OECD comparisons show increases in inequity in Australian society with Australia having one of the most socially segregated education systems in the world. School choice = social segregationGreat State School of the week- Bainbridge P-12 College in Hamiltonwww.adogs.info
A brief history of state aid- State aid has FAILED AGAIN. Mainstream press FINALLY talking about the over-funding of private schools with an article based on research from the Grattan Institute. Education for ALL children is a RIGHT, not a charity. Neither major party is prepared to fully fund public schools. In Australia since 2001, we've gone from having one of the most equitable education systems, to having the most inequitable in the OECD.Great State school of the Week- Epping Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Tax policy and the separation of church and state- basic principle- No-one should be taxed to pay for the advancement of the religion of another. Morrison government caught diverting funds for capital works to private schools- taxpayers paying for not only running costs, but also the building of dance studios, fitness centres and in-school cafes in private schools. A.E.U. uses freedom of information to uncover the obscene over-funding of private schools while there are ZERO capital works funding allocated for public schools. Elite schools receiving tens of millions in grant after grant after grant when they DEMONSTRABLY do not need it. TAFE- neo-liberal agenda destroyed TAFE system yet refuses to encourage state attempts to rectify it.Great State School of the Week- Cheltenham Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Overview of major parties education policy- mirror each other in fundung commitments to continue to Private/Catholic schools. $1.2 billion Coalition commitment to "Choice and Affordability" fund. U.S. Secretary of education btsy DeVos's mind-boggling views on education funding policy. David Zygnier's research showing that public schools are out-performing private schools. Plus the significant benefits to society of education systems that are racially and socio-econimically integrated.Great State School of the Week- Fort St Selective High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Education and policy funding. Australia's version of religious freedom- if the government gives money to one religion, then it must give money to them all!. Inequity and inequality taken for granted in Australia- major equity and segregation issues, the NEED to implement the Schools Resourcing Standard. Liberal Candidate's statement on superiority of private schools. The widening gap between educational outcomes of advantaged and disadvantaged schools- the concentration of disadvantage and the worsening trend of the segregation of disadvantaged children.Great State School of the Week- Swan Hill Specialist Schoolwww.adogs.info
Tax policy and the separation of church and state- NO tax payer should be compelled to subsidise religion. The diffence between educating MY CHILD and educating THE CHILDREN- parental choice destroying Australia's education system with the system favouring NOT academic merit but parental wealth and parents resonding to an educational marketplace. Individualisation- forced response to a percieved 'risk' leading to illegal action of parents to obtain enrollments in catchments of 'Good' state schools- government needs to make ALL state schools GOOD!Great State School of the Week- Ivanhoe Central P-12 Public School, NSWwww.adogs.info
NO mention of public education as Coalition's education priorities, the total of $14 BILLION in cuts to public schools. A brief history of Ireland's religous schooling and the modern attempt at disestablishmentarianism. Corruption in Australia's education system- disadvantaged schools miss out on fundamental access to teaching resouces- damning OECD report. NAPLAN test's conflict of interest.Great State School of the Week- Altona P-9 Collegewww.adogs.info
Budget week- 'If this budget is Scomo's idea of a fair go, themn it's time for him to go'- Caranna Haythorpe, AEU. Government priorites- private schools in their DNA. Less than 30% of students attend private schools while public enrollments rise yet that 1/3 get $12 billion, while 2/3 ie. public schools get only $7.5 billion. Insult to public education- NO capital works funding for public schools. Not a mention of TAFE in the budget. 99% of public schools receive LESS than the School Resources Standard recommendation. Evil in the U.S.- Besty DeVos's ignorant statement on class size, plus racist exam questions. V.E.T. funding in comparison to university funding.Great State Schoo of the Weel- The Elizabeth College in Tasmaniawww.adogs.info
School chaplaincy case- a win at VCAT with an agreement to change the position description to include atheists. Congratulations to the Rational Society Association's fellow Luke Beck and the plaintiff Juliet Armstrong. An Individual student's action on climate change makes their high school completely solar-powered. Pearson group under scrutiny. The ingredients that make up a great school.Great State School of the Week- Sunbury Downs Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
This week we hear the voices of the passionate, informed and courageous students who took to Melbourne's streets on Friday, March 15th, to protest the inaction of our government to respond to the threat of climate change.Great State School of the week- Rose Hill Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
The chameleon-like rhetoric of the Catholic church, education funding and Pell- refusal of freedom of information request into where the money goes. Morrison has made it clear that public schools are NOT a priority for his government- cutting $14 billion in funding to public schools despite growth in new student enrollments. The rights of students to protest climate change, public funding for TAFE.
The privatisation of the entire school system in the U.S.- West Virginia statewide teacher walkout leads to more widespread strikes against charter schools,Catholic school system concealing of funds from taxpayers- Catholic authorities desperate to avoid public scrutiny. Plus chaplaincy programs in State schoolsTWO Great State Schools of the week! Preston West Primary School and Faulkner Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
The effects of 'school shopping' on public schools, how private schools are gaming the university entrance system, big business putting profit ahead of student outcomes, state and teritory governments increase funding to private schools.Great State School of the Week- Princes Hill Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Equity ( and the lack thereof ) in education, interveiw with Chris Bonner on equity, indigenous enrollment issues, proper accountability for public money.Great State School of the week- Errol Street North Melbourne Primary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Religious anti-discrimination exemptions- interview with Dr Luke Beck, Bishop Robert Forsythe and Dr Renee Barker from ABC radio National's God Forbid program. Franking credits, Australia's educational apartheid.Great State School of the Week- Jinibara Primary School, Burpengary QLD
Entrenched inequality as new funding arrangements guarantee that Public Schools are now UNDER-FUNDED, ON PURPOSE, INDEFINITELY. Public schools are being defrauded of BILLIONS of dollars by funding arrangements finalised last year.Great State School of the Week- Lilydale High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Identity crisis for Catholic schools and the legal validity of funding religion and religious schools in Australia. 40 years and BILLIONS of dollars in private school funding later and still more than two thirds of Asutralian children attend public schools. We're paying BILLIONS to hold the fine line between catholic and the rest of Australia's kids.Great State School of the Week- Buckley Park College, Essendonwww.adogs.info
U.S. Education privatisation parallels, L.A. teachers strike, elite schools fighting in court reveal more tha they intend.Great State School of the week- Victorian College of the Arts secondary schoolwww.adogs.info
This week Jean dissects public private partnership arrangements in Victorian. Robert gives advice to parents who have income and are being told they need to turn their back on the Public School System.
The extravagant 'needs' of elite private schools being paid for by YOU. The politics of absurdity- diverting public money to private schools is disastrous policy- state aid should be withdrawn from schools that are not accessible to EVERY Australian child. School climate change protest/strike, annual wrap-up of 2018Great State School of the Week- Apollo Bay Collegewww.adogs.info
Special interview on the active segregation of children in schools in the United States from the Ntional Education Policy Centre with Professot Emeritus Gregory Smith and Malaway Rooks.Great State School of the week- Keilor Downs Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
It's official- there is NO separation of religion from the state in Australia. Max Wallace disusses the Rudduck review and its educational implications, religious freedom in Australia.Great State School of the week- Auburn High Schoolwww.adogs.info
Are private school parents voting with their feet and enrolling in public schools? Infrastructure problem with new schools, morning and afternoon schools, postcode fascism, the impasse between state and federal government over education funding.Great State School of the week- Middle King Lake Primarywww.adogs.info
Hear the figures that show how Private Educators are taking from Public Schools. Robert follows this with news of teachers striking in Chicago for pay and conditions in the Charter school system.
PHd student Creighton Smith's longitudinal study of Naplan tests since 2018 are showing stark inequality in educational outcomes according to postcodes. Rob talks with the researching about his findings.
Gittens article, Australian education in hock to religious education funding, so-called 'class-free' society has one of the most socially stratified education systems in the WORLD, OECD report shows we are going backwards, concentration of disadvantage, pruvatised education system in the U.S. and the documentary 'Failed State'.Great State School of the week- Powlett River Primary, near Wonthaggiwww.adogs.info
Wquity in education in Australia, Poison of 'choice', special 'equity' funding for Catholic schools from Morrison for 'drought relief'- over 10 years?! Birmingham's political assassination by Catholic Church, australian students sold down the river for political points, Catholic standover tacticsGreat State School of the Week- Narrewarren South Collegewww.adogs.info
Religious debate heating up, religion in state schools, religion in state-funded schools and the private privilege to discriminate. Victorian election issues, codifies religious liberty in section 116 of the Australian Constitution, matthew Guy's intention to entrench christian proselytising in STATE SCHOOLS.Great State School of the week- Brookside College in Caroline Springswww.adogs.info
Privatisation and the failure of neoliberalism, privatisation by stealth of public education, Menadue article on crony capitalism, the obvious connection between anti-privatisation ideas and public education. AGAIN according to NAPLAN sending your child to private schools gives your child NO EXTRA ADVANTAGE.Great State School- Melba Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
The mish-mash that is Gonski, private schools cornering the market of 'needfulness', religious schools are NOT for the poor or disadvantaged, freedom of conscience, facts and figures from Trevor Cobbold and the Save Our Schools group. The "choice" fund? More like the Duplication of Services fund! Historically separating church and state.www.adogs.info
Schooling should be PUBLIC IN ACCESS. The essence of the private schooling 'choice' argument is DISCRIMINATION- private schools discriminate against children using YOUR tax dollars and are expecting their 'right to discriminate' to be legislated- they want to be above the law. Response to the Ruddock Review, Andrews' government pre-election promise of 400 million to catholic schools, facts and figures concerning religious schools and the mult8inational corporations that are churches. NSW Education minister stokes rejects special 4.5 billion dollar deal for Catholic and independent schools that contradict Gonskiu 2.0, Mr Shorten pretends to come to the public schools party..www.adogs.info
Fair Funding Now letter to Prime Minister in fairfax press- a call to action. Special deals for wealthy schools, Greens taking on Catholic education lobby and Stephen Elder- calling them LEECHES. Jane Caro on the enemies of public schooling, Charities and Not-For Profit Commission auditing what Catholic Church does with tax payer funding.www.adogs.info
Can't see the forest for the trees- the REAL problem with school funding and the needs policy, the long term issue of the survival of free education, back to basics- fighting for FREE education for ALL. Ruddock review and religious freedoms, mainstream media responses to education issues. U.S. for profit education predators defrauding students.Great State School- Lightening Reef Primary in North Bendigowww.adogs.info
War declared on public education, our federal government's LACK of public education poliocy, Victoria's state election and education implications. The federal government has stopped governing! Andrews government unambiguously encouraging people to enroll their children in public schools.great state School- Newport Lakes Primarywww.adogs.info
Issues of separation of religion and the state playing out in our schools, ugly outcomes from neoliberalism and marketplace ideology in education- school shopping, teachers struggling in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Matraville Sports Highwww.adogs.info
Special deals being done between religious institutions and the federal government ( Turnbull's proposed 4.4 BILLION dollar top up! and morrison's version), Colorado's transistion from a 5 day school week to a 4 day week! Why our Prime Minister sends his children to Private schools.Great State Schools of the week- ALL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN NSW IN 5 YEARS TIME!www.adogs.info
New federal minister for education (for now) Dan Tehan- who is he and what are his interests and ties? Fight right at the heart of church and state, Catholic boasting about putting politicians in government!Great State School of the Week- Preston Westwww.adogs.info
Religoius factions playing aggressive politics, mainstream media taking the DOGS position, 'Bespoke education'- Australia's private schools are NOT worth the price tag, paying for homogenous segregation with your tax dollars.Great State school of the Week- Rose Hill secondary collegewww.adogs.info
Sectarian war between catholic and Independent schools for Government funding, pressure to remove exemption from anti-discrimination laws for religious oprganisations that are tax-payer funded, calls for churches to lose their charitable status and tax exemptions, issues of separation of church and state.Great State School of the week- Newport Lake State Primarywww.adogs.info
Schools warm up for prize fight over school funding. In Australia we don't have any functional separation of religion and the state. LeBron James personal financial contributions to the PUBLIC school system and 'wrap-around' services in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Beaumaris Secondary continuedwww.adogs.info
Catholic and Independent sector playing politics with the education of children in Australia, school funding war has erupted, opinion piece by Chris Bonner echoing the DOGS position, claims that private schools are 'better' than public schools are, simply, FALSE- longitudinal studies prove this to be the case.Great State School of the Week- Beaumaris Secondary collegewww.adogs.info
Failed privatisation experiment in Kinsley (U.K.) and academy chains sees standards plummet, questionable use of funding, government becoming the plaything of multinational corporations, significant problems with private education contracts in Chicago- echoes of similar issues of misappropriation of funds in Victoria.Public Education foundation- publiceducationfoundation.org.auGreat State School of the week- Templestowe collegewww.adogs.info
The parasitic effect of selective state schools, the 'marketplace' of education, Education and Labor departments to be combined in the U.S., DeVos's actions during her tenure as Secretary of EducationGreat State School of the week- Lindfield Public Schoolwww.adogs.info
Obituary for Alan Lidsay Heath. New Government weapon for drilling down into individuals tax returns. Despite government admissionsof over-funding of Catholic and Independant school systems, funding of these systems has INCREASED. Further analysis of article on privatisation of education in the U.S. and the resulting segregation.Great State School of the week- Glenwaverly Secondary Schoolwww.adogs.info
Indigenous education and enrollments- where are indigenous children being educated? Gonski and curriculum problems- teachers are left out of the consultation process altogether, continued analysis of privatisation of education in the U.S.Great State School- Wilmot Road Primarywww.adogs.info
Gonski 2.0, Greg Ashman and Glenn Savage article available at Save Our Schools/Dogs Website, continued analysis of article on privatisation of education in the U.S.www.adogs.info
What and who are fuelling the movement to privateise education? Analysis of an important article on privatisation of education, market-based reform of public education in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Hume Central Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
Special radiothon edition. Great State School of the Week- Bundoora Secondary College- includes interview with parent of current student.www.adogs.info
Independent and private schools at war, accusations of sectarianism, disability figures in indepepndent schools rise as teachers decide who is disabled- NOT doctors.Great State School of the Week - Ivanhoe Primarywww.adogs.info
The 3 systems of education in Australia, the arms race between private schools, aspirational parents returing to state schools as private enrolments fall nationwide, the rhetoric of choice.Great State School- Knox Central Primarywww.adogs.info
National Sorry Day Edition of the DOGS- $250 million found by ScoMo to fund the anti-constitutional chaplaincy program! Pastoral care program prohibits proselytizing yet providers MUST be Christian (whose directives explicitly demand conversion). Long term negative social and emotional impacts of school closures.Great State School of the Week- Cairns' Woree State Schoolwww.adogs.info
Private schools undermine the most basic principles of government accountability for public expenditure, Nsw Auditor General's report on expenditure on private schools, Qld Auditor general report in 2015 actual;ly found private schools OVER counting student numbers to gain extra funding, Self- regulation for private schools means NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Going issues of Gonski- Jane Caro's take- little understanding of secular and non-offensive.Great State School- Swan Hill Collegewww.adogs.info
An out-of-touch budget from an out-of-touch government, the pointless chaplaincy program is funded again, the gonski wars and a return to payment by results? Plus a budget response from the president of the Asutralian Education Union carina Haythorpe.www.adogs.info
Is someone in the state government listening to the DOGS? Govt cut-back opn capit6al investment in Catholic/private schools. Catholic rhetoric has started up again- denying parents choice, lass warfare and so-called values. Gonski 2.0 analysis and implications. Naplan has created a marketplace whwere the grade of each child is the commodity.Great State School of the Week- Templestowe Collegewww.adogs.info
Freedom of and from religion and the dissenting opinion from Justice murphy, the tragedy of our TAFE system, rorting by tax file number. Great State school of the Week- Murrayvilee community collegewww.adogs.info
Funding debates proving that the DOGS position is UNASSAILABLE. The needs policy has been a failure again and again. Australia's education system is slipping behind the rest of the world at a rapidly increasing rate. The Commonwealth's role is the primary public funder of public schools yet private schools have the top funding priority to the government.www.adogs.info
The Catholic church phone blitzed the Batman electorate to ensure that labour won the seat- why and who paid for all these "robo-calls". Catholic church is still desperately trying to make itself a player in australian politics. There is now a mopuntain of evidence that shows increased funding for low-income and other disadvantaged students improves results. Great State Schools of the week is Merna Central College P-12
Our government is actively separating children on the basis of their parents income and faith- social segregation akin to apartheid. Significant increase in social segregation for the last 40 years- right about when we started pouring money into the private schools sector. Great state school of the week - Doveton collegewww.adogs.info
The history of the parallel catholic education system, how state funding of private schools originated and the "Goulburn Strike" that started it all. This week's great state school is Footscray West Primarywww.adogs.info
This week Cameron Siever and Claire Nicholls from La Mama present excerpts from their current production A Song for Simon Birmingham- A Lifestyle Choicewww.adogs.info
Australia is desperately trying to build it's own aristocracy with YOUR tax dollars. Funding allocations to Catholic schools is DELIBERATELY opaque with its own completely separate bureacracy. Virue signalling. The Chaplaincy program rears its pointless, out-dates, wasteful, exclusive, counter-intuitive and ILLEGAL head yet again. State School of the week- Glenhuntly Primary
In Australia, we DON'T have freedom from religion, the big secret- spending any more than $14000 per year, per child on education is going to waste. Public schools achieve BETTER results than private schools. it is a fallacy that private schools out-perform public schools with siumilar socio-economic ratings.
More on the Ruddock inquiry into religion and the state, Matthew Guy's plan to pump up parochial nationalism with a daily pledge of allegience a la USA, an authoritarian approach to problematic schools with a police presence! Great State School of the Week is Bentley Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info
State needs policy becomes a PRIVATE GREEDS policy, which way will Gonski jump? Education in Australia is a national scandal. Every single public school in NSW is only recieving 90% of its required funding, while the private schools recieve 107%.
Jean talks to the recent budget and what it means to Public Education. We see a strange heating up of the old antipathies between Protestan and Catholics through the new funding model for elite private schools. Rob looks at the agenda of the new American Education Secratary of Education Betsy DeVos - the use of philanthory and politican think tanks to push fundamentalist Christian education agendas. Her recent speech at a Black University in Florida had many students turning their back on her.
Family Trusts and how they take from Public Education. Apartheid schools advocated by big Private Schools in Australia a cash grab.
Jean and Rob chat with Ron Williams about the seperation of religion and the state, especially as it refers to education. He also talks about his new website, spe.org.au, which looks at secular education, especially in New South Wales and Queensland.
Expenditure of taxes? Lots of missing figures- zero accountability in private schoolsadogs.info
Internationally, teachers are getting active PLUS a listener's response to PISAhttp://www.adogs.info/
Voucher systems in education, VET and the disatrous implications for Australia's educational future.http://www.adogs.info/
Apologies for the technical difficulties this week, but never fear- here is your weekly installment of DOGS in its entirety!www.adogs.info
Privatisation of education has FAILED Australian children. The refusal to admit the failure of co-mingling market theocracy and an institution such as education.www.adogs.info
Private education providers targeting specifically overseas students and charging exorbitant rates for meaningless qualifications have reached the end of their halycon days of rorts, backdoor passports and nest feathering.www.adogs.info
Successive governments have expected and welcomed massive population growth and all the repercussions of that growth. So why then, for the first time in 15 years, will there be no more Victorian State Scools built?www.adogs.info
DOGS press release, Max Wallace's article - Religion's Dying Swan Act, separation of church and state and a large scale survey on morality.www.adogs.info
Happy 40th Birthday 3cr!Take over the private schools and make them public- The public pay for them, they should be able to use them! www.adogs.info
The 'holiday' period has, in the past, been used by politicians to slyly slip unpopular policy decisions into practice without the public paying too much attention. This year is no different with Mr Turnbull confirming that the final 2 years of the Gonski funding will NOT be honoured.www.adogs.info
Despite a wealth of positive examples of effective and successful public education systems from Scandinavian countries, Canadian provinces and South American countries, Australia seems wedded to the idea of making the same mistakes that the United States and Britain have made- ransoming education to the private sector.www.adogs.info
Ravenswood Captain Sarah Haynes went off script to tell it like it is, to the chagrin of the school board. She wrote two versions- one for the school 'censors' and one she truly wished to read. Surface versus substancewww.adogs.info
VET fiasco, the provision of education is not a marketplace. The education of the children of this nation is too important to debase with economic rationalism.www.adogs.info
The Australian Council for the Defense of Government Schools Press Release #629 plus bungled funding figures addressed.www.adogs.info
Our children's birthright should not be the plaything of market theocratists. States at mercy of Federal Government's maket theocracy. Australia is the only country to ransom its educational future. www.adogs.info
Worn out privatisation rhetoric spewing forth from the new minister. How many poor public schools has Birmingham ever visited? The DOGS have never unquestioningly supported Gonski as it is really a form of voucher system. www.adogs.info
Tax-paying parents are NOT entitled to but are OWED State Schools that deliver a first-rate education that is offensive to none. State schools should be owned and controlled by the public and be publicly accountable ergo they are the only ones that should be publicly funded.
Analysis of education policy issues. Free market capitalist and the education system do not mix. Where a natural monopoly exists, it should be run by and for the public, and overseen by the people.www.adogs.info
Marketeerers profiting from Education, State-sanctioned Religious discrimination. What happens in Australia, almost uniquely worldwide, is that when tax payers money goes to religious institutions, there is NO oversight of that money. All religiously based private schools in Australia is free from the Anti-Discrimination Act. For Dennis Hart, the Enlightenment NEVER HAPPENED. www.adogs.info
Birmingham may indulge in softer rhetoric but there's no evidence of commitment to anything other the tired old Liberal market ideology. He has stated that he will be "true the the values" of the Liberal party's policy on Education.www.adogs.info
DOGS do not expect any change from the new Turnbull Government. His experience of schools for the common good rather than private priilege is extremely limited. www.adogs.info
The Australian education system and a comparison with Chile. The privatisation of the school system in Chile got so out of hand that in 2013, the re-publicisation of education became an election issue and saw a process of deep transformation to the education system occur with the banning of tuition fees, profit-making and selective admission practices in all private / religious schools that receive state funding.www.adogs.info
Rob chats with Peter Kaliakoudis and Max Wallace Vice President of Rationalists Association of New South Wales about what we can learn from Greece and the relationship that the Greek Orthodox Church has with the State.www.adogs.info
A win for FIRIS sees Special Religious Instruction programs re4moved from class time. www.adogs.info
We cover an interesting article about choice and entitlement and education policy by David Zyngier (from Monash University, actively involved in FIRIS)Access Ministries have moved up to New South Wales and in response FIRIS have put up a billboard in Liverpool challenging some of the instruction given during the Special Religious Instruction classes, provoking some very unChristian responses.www.adogs.info
We look at an interesting article by David Zyngier, from Monash who has actively been involved in the Fairness In Religion Campaign.www.adogs.info
Is Australia intent on following the social stratification of the United Kingdom? Are we being dragged back into a top-down society with little hope of social mobility for the children of the poor?www.adogs.info
State Aid to Independent and Religious Schools is bad social policy and economic stupidity.www.adogs.info
Dependant schools, aspirational parents and a market theocracy. Rich schools getting more cash, spent on superficial external appearances to entice aspirational parents while public schools in need go without. Tax-payers money goes to these schools- then where? Financial information is not available even though it's YOUR money.The Australian Council for the Defence of Government Schools - the DOGS www.adogs.info
Education is NOT a commodity.Two basic enlightened principles are at risk. 1) Every child born has the right to a free, secular and universal education that is offensive to none, so that the electorate has INFORMED voters 2) Separation of Church and State- the result of 400 years of bloodshed and it's a tragedy to see billions of tax-payers dollars going back into a system, which is alive and well in our so-called democracy, that is in fact ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, and that is the RELIGIOUS SCHOOL SYSTEM, the largest proponent of which is the Catholic School System The Australian Council for the Defence of Government Schools - the DOGS - www.adogs.info
DOGS press release number 605. Rob chats with author and Government School activist Meg Wallace on the eve of the launch of her new book Freedom From Religionwww.adogs.info
The only value exemplified in Private schools is the value of commerce with students analogous to high yield investments. www.adogs.info
Any form of public service only works if it's accountable, effective and efficient. A young child's concerns about FSA testing and being treated as a number through standardised testing.www.adogs.info
The Catholic church's "charitable act" of dealing with the education of the poor - using your taxes to actively discriminate against children. Education is a right regardless of religion, values, gender, sexual orientation or bank balance. www.adogs.info
The Australian Council for the Defense Of Government Schools continues to stand up for the right of every child to a free, quality and universal education that is offensive to none. As more of YOUR tax dollars are spent on independent schools, state schools continue to go without.www.adogs.info
The strange case of Scots College boys bypassing HSC and instead studied a 17 week diploma to gain access to University of Sydney- Diploma of Tertiary Preparation- these are the only boys to have access to diploma. Forget about education for all- in the market place all that matters is the parental bank balance and cold hard cash.www.adogs.info
Due to the market structure imposed in 80s by dictator Pinochet, the Chilean education system is the most socio-economically segregated in the OECD. Australia is well on the way but it hasn't been imposed by a dictator, it is happening under our very noses.www.adogs.info
Defense of Government SchoolsDOGS press release, state aid debate and Mr Andrews new government, funding of private religious schools in Victoria, outrage at new government's delivering of 25% public school funding to private and religious schools.www.adogs.info
Special International Women's Day edition of DOGS with Jean and Dale talking about their respective experiences in education.
DOGS press release (available from www.adogs.info), mismanagement of educational infrastructure, public money for private education means withdrawal of the choice of free education for ALL children plus former teacher David McLean reads his article on teacher/student dynamics.