Fed: Rudd to push for reporting on schools

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2008
Fed: Rudd to push for reporting on schools

CANBERRA, Aug 27 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says school performance reporting
will be a condition for reaching an education agreement with the states.

Mr Rudd, in a key address to the National Press Club in Canberra today, says he expects
resistance to the move.

"We will be making agreement on individual school performance reporting a condition
of the new national education agreement to come into effect from the first of January,
2009," he said.

"I know some will resist these changes.

"There is little doubt that greater transparency will reveal some schools in Australia
may be seriously underperforming and have been struggling for some time."

The reporting is one of three central pillars of school reforms the federal government
aims to achieve late this year in talks with the states.

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