Public Schools

About 100 undergraduate and Masters teaching students in the ACT are in classrooms without supervision, in a program designed to help with the chronic teacher shortage. But does putting them in the classrooms earlier lead to burn out faster?

More than 660 state schools will close in Queensland on Thursday and Friday, with the closures spanning from Cooroy in the Noosa region down to the NSW border at Coolangatta.

New South Wales has become the latest state to sign an education funding deal with the federal government, meaning most of the country's public schools will now be on track to achieve the minimum funding levels recommended by the Gonski review in 2012.

Students in New South Wales are learning in classrooms with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius on hot days, amid delays to install air-conditioning.

Youth workers say the closure of a long-running school in the Alice Springs youth prison will hinder young people's rehabilitation, as the NT's record-high prison population continues to rise.  

A number of students from Northern Beaches Secondary College have walked out, protesting the planned expansion of its senior campus to include years 7 to 10.

Sunshine Coast students are being told to park their transport devices off-site, and discouraged from using them at all, after an underage rider narrowly avoided a crash.

About 900 students at public schools in Western Sydney will learn about the impacts of climate change and urban heat island effects in a new program run by Powerhouse Parramatta.

A social media video showing two NSW hospital workers saying they refuse to treat Israeli patients and kill them instead has sent shock waves across the country.

Former teacher Helga Lam is being pursued by the State of NSW in civil proceedings involving four men who allege they were sexually abused as students.

Australian schooling is changing, with more than 1.5 million students now attending private schools, new data reveals.

Parents want a government rethink on a "rigid" rule forcing Manangatang P-12 College students to evacuate 50 kilometres away on hot, extreme fire risk days.

One of Broken Hill's two high schools was shut down following the discovery of hazardous mould. After more than 12 months, the community is frustrated by the lack of action on the promised rebuild.

Students are trying new foods as more schools are getting free lunches, and teachers say it's benefiting not just their bellies.

Frankie Jane Green and her family have to "share an address" with friends to meet school enrolment requirements while they search for a permanent home.

The doors have opened to two new public schools in Tasmania — and the report cards are positive on day one.

A new primary and high school will open this week in north-west Sydney, after more than 40 demountables had to be installed at another local school to meet growing demand.

Parents and dietitians say it shouldn't be up to schools to push healthy eating if it means sending food home, or not allowing a child to eat something packed in their lunch box — especially during a cost-of-living crisis.

An independent review into Tasmania's education system has found four main areas for improvement, with a union saying it must result in real change — and not just be "another review that gets put to the backburner".

Families are facing crippling costs to educate their kids — even at public schools. It has led some to withdraw their children from hobbies and plan carefully simply to get them through school.