One of Sydney’s top-performing public schools will seek to cut costs and ask parents to pay more after its budget was slashed.
Michele Bruniges will use a speech at The Sydney Morning Herald Schools Summit on Wednesday to outline how public schools disproportionately educate disadvantaged students.
The four select-entry public schools outperform many of their high-fee paying rivals – but are not without their critics.
Select-entry government schools are supposed to be the great equaliser,but very few disadvantaged kids go to them.
The former principal of James Ruse has spoken to parents over the use of overtly racist language,including the N-word and students being called “slaves”.
North Sydney Boys deputy Matthew Dopierala will take up the principal’s position at rival selective school James Ruse,which ended its 27-year-reign as the top-ranked school last year.
One of the state’s oldest all-boys schools has bought a large inner-city office block that was once the headquarters of Sony Australia.
Analysts say the proliferation of coaching colleges is giving parents false hope and misguided notions about how talented their child is.
University High in Parkville will move year 9 students to a CBD campus next year due to overcrowding,but parents say the government is dragging its feet on a permanent solution to the booming student population.
Boys now make up 60 per cent of students who get ATARs above 99.