NSW will run a trial year 1 numeracy screening check in 150 schools from next term.

Thousands of NSW primary school students to sit new mathematics test

The teacher-run 15-minute test will check students’ maths skills in counting,ordering numbers and simple addition and subtraction.

  • Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris

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Chatswood Public is among the northern Sydney schools to have recently received an upgrade.

These north shore schools have been shelved but thousands of new homes are coming

Plans for an education precinct at St Leonards and a new Chatswood public primary school were earmarked under the former government.

  • Lucy Carroll
Students protesting at Granville Boys High School on Wednesday.

Students protest at Sydney school after Muslim staffer told to work from home

Granville Boys High student support officer Sheikh Wesam Charkawi was ordered to remove social media posts where he downplayed antisemitic comments made by two Sydney nurses.

  • Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris
Cammeray mother Amanda Smythe has concerns about a lack of bus services for school kids including her daughter.

Forty-minute waits,700-metre queues:Bus chaos causes long commutes in Sydney’s north

Schoolchildren and parents are among commuters feeling the pain at bus stops during morning peaks as bendy buses are out of action.

  • Matt O'Sullivan andLucy Carroll
Documents dated from April last year include 21 public education system targets developed by the education department.

Revealed:The secret performance targets for our schools

Performance goals that have been kept from the public for months reveal what parents really think about their children’s school.

  • Lucy Carroll
Miriam Palazzi,18,graduated from selective school Merewether High in Newcastle and enrolled at the University of Sydney this year.

Private school bubble:Where students at Sydney’s biggest universities came from

Public school graduates made up only 41 per cent of new undergraduates at Sydney University despite efforts to increase students from disadvantaged groups.

  • Christopher Harris andLucy Carroll
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For Labor,the road to Parliament House runs through the Federal Labor Business Forum.

Seven in 10 high school students fail civics and citizenship tests

The latest results come amid a loss of faith in democracy and political institutions,rising antisemitic attacks and a breakdown in social cohesion.

  • Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris
A Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters report called for mandatory civics course for years 11 and 12 students.

Compulsory civics lessons push amid escalating antisemitic attacks in Sydney

The state’s top private school told parents it will review its curriculum programs to ensure it’s emphasising “the importance of tolerance and understanding”.

  • Lucy Carroll
Newington College is set to go co-ed from 2026.

Historians and lexicologists to give expert opinion in Newington co-ed court battle

Newington College’s plans to begin admitting girls from next year are set to hinge on a legal interpretation of a 152-year-old trust deed.

  • Lucy Carroll
The changes to the Inner Sydney High catchment.

‘This will split our suburb in two’:Parents’ anger over school catchment changes

Inner Sydney High has its first year 12 cohort doing the HSC this year – and it is already feeling the popularity pinch.

  • Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris