DOGS

Religoius factions playing aggressive politics, mainstream media taking the DOGS position, 'Bespoke education'- Australia's private schools are NOT worth the price tag, paying for homogenous segregation with your tax dollars. Great State school of the Week- Rose Hill secondary collegewww.adogs.info

Sectarian war between catholic and Independent schools for Government funding, pressure to remove exemption from anti-discrimination laws for religious oprganisations that are tax-payer funded, calls for churches to lose their charitable status and tax exemptions, issues of separation of church and state. Great State School of the week- Newport Lake State Primarywww.adogs.info

Schools warm up for prize fight over school funding. In Australia we don't have any functional separation of religion and the state. LeBron James personal financial contributions to the PUBLIC school system and 'wrap-around' services in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Beaumaris Secondary continuedwww.adogs.info

Catholic and Independent sector playing politics with the education of children in Australia, school funding war has erupted, opinion piece by Chris Bonner echoing the DOGS position, claims that private schools are 'better' than public schools are, simply, FALSE- longitudinal studies prove this to be the case. Great State School of the Week- Beaumaris Secondary collegewww.adogs.info

Failed privatisation experiment in Kinsley (U.K.) and academy chains sees standards plummet, questionable use of funding, government becoming the plaything of multinational corporations, significant problems with private education contracts in Chicago- echoes of similar issues of misappropriation of funds in Victoria. Public Education foundation- publiceducationfoundation.org.auGreat State School...

The parasitic effect of selective state schools, the 'marketplace' of education, Education and Labor departments to be combined in the U.S., DeVos's actions during her tenure as Secretary of EducationGreat State School of the week- Lindfield Public Schoolwww.adogs.info

Obituary for Alan Lidsay Heath. New Government weapon for drilling down into individuals tax returns.  Despite government admissionsof over-funding of Catholic and Independant school systems, funding of these systems has INCREASED. Further analysis of article on privatisation of education in the U.S. and the resulting segregation. Great State School of the week- Glenwaverly Secondary Schoolwww.ado...

Indigenous education and enrollments- where are indigenous children being educated? Gonski and curriculum problems- teachers are left out of the consultation process altogether, continued analysis of privatisation of education in the U.S.Great State School- Wilmot Road Primarywww.adogs.info

Gonski 2.0, Greg Ashman and Glenn Savage article available at Save Our Schools/Dogs Website, continued analysis of article on privatisation of education in the U.S.www.adogs.info

What and who are fuelling the movement to privateise education? Analysis of an important article on privatisation of education, market-based reform of public education in the U.S.Great State School of the week- Hume Central Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info

Special radiothon edition. Great State School of the Week- Bundoora Secondary College- includes interview with parent of current student.www.adogs.info

Independent and private schools at war, accusations of sectarianism, disability figures in indepepndent schools rise as teachers decide who is disabled- NOT doctors. Great State School of the Week - Ivanhoe Primarywww.adogs.info

The 3 systems of education in Australia, the arms race between private schools, aspirational parents returing to state schools as private enrolments fall nationwide, the rhetoric of choice. Great State School- Knox Central Primarywww.adogs.info

National Sorry Day Edition of the DOGS- $250 million found by ScoMo to fund the anti-constitutional chaplaincy program! Pastoral care program prohibits proselytizing yet providers MUST be Christian (whose directives explicitly demand conversion). Long term negative social and emotional impacts of school closures. Great State School of the Week- Cairns' Woree State Schoolwww.adogs.info

Private schools undermine the most basic principles of government accountability for public expenditure, Nsw Auditor General's report on expenditure on private schools, Qld Auditor general report in 2015 actual;ly found private schools OVER counting student numbers to gain extra funding, Self- regulation for private schools means NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Going issues of Gonski- Jane Caro's take- little...

An out-of-touch budget from an out-of-touch government, the pointless chaplaincy program is funded again, the gonski wars and a return to payment by results? Plus a budget response from the president of the Asutralian Education Union carina Haythorpe.www.adogs.info

Is someone in the state government listening to the DOGS? Govt cut-back opn capit6al investment in Catholic/private schools. Catholic rhetoric has started up again- denying parents choice, lass warfare and so-called values. Gonski 2.0 analysis and implications. Naplan has created a marketplace whwere the grade of each child is the commodity. Great State School of the Week- Templestowe Collegewww.a...

Freedom of and from religion and the dissenting opinion from Justice murphy, the tragedy of our TAFE system, rorting by tax file number. Great State school of the Week- Murrayvilee community collegewww.adogs.info

Funding debates proving that the DOGS position is UNASSAILABLE. The needs policy has been a failure again and again. Australia's education system is slipping behind the rest of the world at a rapidly increasing rate. The Commonwealth's role is the primary public funder of public schools yet private schools have the top funding priority to the government.www.adogs.info

The Catholic church phone blitzed the Batman electorate to ensure that labour won the seat- why and who paid for all these "robo-calls". Catholic church is still desperately trying to make itself a player in australian politics. There is now a mopuntain of evidence that shows increased funding for low-income and other disadvantaged students improves results. Great State Schools of the week is Mern...

Our government is actively separating children on the basis of their parents income and faith- social segregation akin to apartheid. Significant increase in social segregation for the last 40 years- right about when we started pouring money into the private schools sector. Great state school of the week - Doveton collegewww.adogs.info

The history of the parallel catholic education system, how state funding of private schools originated and the "Goulburn Strike" that started it all. This week's great state school is Footscray West Primarywww.adogs.info

This week Cameron Siever and Claire Nicholls from La Mama present excerpts from their current production A Song for Simon Birmingham- A Lifestyle Choicewww.adogs.info

Australia is desperately trying to build it's own aristocracy with YOUR tax dollars. Funding allocations to Catholic schools is DELIBERATELY opaque with its own completely separate bureacracy. Virue signalling. The Chaplaincy program rears its pointless, out-dates, wasteful, exclusive, counter-intuitive and ILLEGAL head yet again. State School of the week- Glenhuntly Primary

In Australia, we DON'T have freedom from religion, the big secret- spending any more than $14000 per year, per child on education is going to waste. Public schools achieve BETTER results than private schools. it is a fallacy that private schools out-perform public schools with siumilar socio-economic ratings.