Public Schools

Jamahl Ali is Toronto Public's School Captain 2024.

Over the years, Jamahl Ali has thrived with support from his teachers, family and therapists. Now this boy with "a very kind heart" is leading his peers at Toronto Public School.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leans into the theme of the "great divide" in Australian politics, after delegates hear concerns about 47 schools in regional NSW without access to fresh water.

St Luke's Catholic College in Marsden Park and Penrith Christian School in Orchard Hills join the growing list of sites found to contain contaminated mulch.

While there's no substitute for a qualified teacher, we've asked experts for their best tips for parents who want to help teach their kids to read at home. 

Private school enrolments have soared for the third straight year as parents leave the public system in record numbers in favour of independent or Catholic schools.

A reading revolution at a small, disadvantaged public school in regional Victoria could provide the blueprint for turning around alarming literacy rates in Australia's 10,000 primary schools.

The Department of Education said it was an anomaly for recycled mulch to be used at school sites, as it works to remove all traces of the substance from Liverpool West Public School.

One-third of Australian students are failing to learn to read proficiently, at an estimated cost to the economy of $40 billion, according to a new study. 

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.