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CEO Statement March 2024

PEF Promotes Public Schools Public education has been one of the major headline items in the news in recent months with increasing pressure on governments to fund all schools to 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS). The SRS is an estimate of how much total public funding a school needs to meet its students’ educational needs. It is based on recommendations made in the 2011 Review of Funding for Schooling led by Mr David Gonski AC. [...]

NBN Access

The Australian Government is offering to provide free home internet for one year to 30,000 families around Australia with school-aged children that do not currently have an NBN broadband service.  We have been asked to help identify families who are not connected to the NBN and help them apply for 12 months free internet. If you want to apply for free home internet and do not think you already have NBN: Complete this survey to give us [...]

Ruby Lyons-Reid named as 2022 Public Education Foundation’s Teachers Health Early Career Scholarship recipient

Ruby Lyons-Reid is this year's recipient of the Public Education Foundations Teachers Health Early Career Scholarship. A Tasmanian teacher has been named as the recipient of this year's Public Education Foundation's Teachers Health Early Career Scholarship. Ruby Lyons-Reid teaches year 11 and 12 English, creative writing and Tasmanian Aboriginal studies for the Tasmanian E-School, an online and distance education provider for students from kinder to year 12. This scholarship supports public school teachers who are [...]

Three principals recognised with prestigious Harvard scholarship

Three outstanding Australian principals will take on a professional education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education after being announced the recipients of the 2022 Principals Scholarships.The winning principals were Prairiewood High School principal Belinda Giudice, Michael Sloan, principal of Bathurst’s Denison College of Secondary Education, Kelso High Campus, and Charnwood-Dunlop School principal Danielle Porter.The scholarships, run by the Public Education Foundation and Teachers Mutual Bank, are valued at approximately $16,000 and includes program tuition for one of two prestigious Harvard Graduate [...]

Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson’s plan to correct imbalance between public and private school education

Jennifer Robinson is often on the evening news. For three straight weeks last July, her image was beamed around the world holding actor Amber Heard's hand as they made their way through sometimes hostile crowds into the Royal Courts of Justice in London where Johnny Depp was suing the Sun newspaper. Who was this woman in the red power suit, the world wanted to know? She is, they would discover, an internationally acclaimed Australian human rights lawyer. Heard [...]

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