Public Schools

A government audit has found student projections have been way off, with some schools empty while others are crammed.

Students of a "world-class" agricultural school are stuck in hot, uncomfortable temporary classrooms as they wait for their promised "state-of-the-art" facilities to be built.

Questions remain about how long a mould infestation discovered at Broken Hill's Willyama High School last month has been growing, and whether the health of children and staff has been compromised.

Limited access to public transport causes headaches for families as parents scramble to secure a seat for their children.

About 4,000 kids from remote Australia rely on boarding schools to finish their education, but even at more affordable schools, fees are climbing. The federal government has offered a new scholarship to help, but only for a fraction of students from remote parts of the country.

Expensive school uniforms with logos and monograms do nothing to help kids learn, so why are we paying so much at the uniform shop?

There was a major development around funding for public schools this week. Let us break it down for you.

As its new school year is set to begin, plans are being drawn up to cater for students and staff who cannot enter grounds which may be beyond salvation.

Western Australia will be the first state to have fully funded state schools, with other states being urged to signs similar deals.

The agreement is the first of eight that need to be negotiated with state and territory governments this year.

Two ex-principals are among a group of education department fill-ins taking on an eleventh-hour deployment to a Northern Territory primary school.

Hundreds of students and staff from a regional public high school will be relocated for the beginning of Term 1 next week due to mould detection in multiple buildings.

Corporate staff working for the NT Department of Education have been put on notice that they may be sent to cover gaps in classrooms due to a growing teacher shortage.

More parents than ever are turning to charities for assistance to help afford school basics, from the right uniforms and shoes, to extensive textbook and stationery lists.

Putting a child through public school from prep to year 12 in a major city is now estimated to set families back more than $92,000. 

Parents are being squeezed by the cost of sending kids to school, whether their children are attending public or private, according to two new studies.

The start of a new school year can be a costly time for families, especially as cost-of-living pressures continue, but there are some ways families can save on essentials.

The state's Department for Education says the new ban is working, but experts aren't convinced.

Ava Towers stopped attending school, refusing to get out of the car at drop-off. Her father didn't know what to do, until a specialist team reached out to help.

City public primary schools have dominated the list of high-performing schools, according to analysis of NAPLAN data, as school results are released today. 

It is the result which is the students' culmination of years of hard work and acts as their first branch into the adult world.

Bungendore residents are divided over the site selected for its high school with the location set to swallow up part of the town's only park. 

An independent review has made recommendations to lift student outcomes, retain more teachers and close the gap for at-risk students.

Public schools must be fully funded to combat inequality and all students should be regularly screened to see if they need additional support, a major review into school resourcing has found. 

The ACT will join with the rest of the country when it enacts the ban but some teachers are still not convinced.