Items Tagged With "Parents"

*Release with Julia Gillard

The My School website provides more information about all of Australia’s nearly 10,000 schools than has ever been available to the parents before.

It provides a report card for each school with rich information about the number of students, the number of teachers, attendance rates, literacy and numeracy outcomes from NAPLAN and the background of students going to the school.

The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, has welcomed the overwhelming interest of parents and the Australian community in the new My School website.

On the first day of My School, 9 million hits were registered showing how hungry parents and the broader Australian community are for comprehensive, rich information about their schools.

My School has delivered more information to parents about their child's school than ever before.

The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today officially launched the My School website during a visit to Tempe High School in Sydney.

The My School website went live this morning and has had more than 1.5 million hits as Australians have logged on to access comprehensive information about their local school.

My School contains important information about each of Australia's 10 000 schools including the number of students at the school, the number of teachers at the school and how the school is performing in national literacy and numeracy testing.

From tomorrow morning, all Australian parents, teachers and school communities will have access to comprehensive information on every school in the country through the new My School website.

My School will give parents and the wider community more information than they have ever had before about their local school and how it is performing in the foundation subjects of literacy and numeracy.

My School will contain a school report card on the almost 10 000 government, independent and Catholic schools across Australia.

Premier John Brumby and Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard today announced $2.25 million for a new integrated childcare centre for Bendigo.

In Bendigo today, Mr Brumby said the centre would provide at least 50 new long-day care places for the Bendigo community.

The Australian Government is investing $1.6 million, the Victorian Government is contributing $500,000 and the Greater Bendigo City Council is providing $150,000 to build the new centre.

Minister for Early Childhood Education and Child Care Kate Ellis today launched a new online tool to help families budget for child care.

The Child Care Estimator shows families what financial support the Government can give them through the Child Care Benefit and Child Care Rebate.

“As families plan for 2010, the Estimator will help them make more accurate and well-informed decisions about child care,” Ms Ellis said.