ACT Legislation Is A Model for Consultation on School Closures

Posted on Friday July 1, 2011

The Tasmanian Greens Minister for Education should use the ACT legislation as a model for consulting on school closures. The legislation ensures an independent and open consultation on the full impact of school closures. >> Read on...

Save Our Schools Tasmania

Posted on Thursday June 30, 2011

Join the campaign against school closures in Tasmania. A rally will be held in Hobart on 7 July at 11am at Parliament House. >> Read on...

The Tasmanian Government’s Case to Close Schools is Threadbare

Posted on Wednesday June 29, 2011

The Tasmanian Government has failed to provide any evidence to support its claims that closing schools will lead to substantial savings and improve education. >> Read on...

Impact Statements on Tas. School Closures are a Farce

Posted on Saturday June 25, 2011

The impact statements on school closures issued to school associations by the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Nick McKim, are farcical. They present a one-sided view of the impact of closing schools. They fail to assess the benefits of keeping schools open. < >> Read on...

ACT Government Policy Backflip on School Planning

Posted on Friday May 13, 2011

The funding of school expansions in the ACT Budget reveals that the Government has returned to a policy of meeting local demand for neighbourhood schools and is now prepared to expand schools in regions with excess capacity—previously it only wanted to close schools in such cases.< >> Read on...

Study Says that School Closures are Unlikely to Deliver Financial Savings and Education Improvement

Posted on Friday May 6, 2011

A new study concludes that research evidence offers remarkable little support for the propositions that closing schools leads to financial savings or school improvement. Most often it harms school communities and the most vulnerable students and families. >> Read on...

Official Vandalism of Heritage School

Posted on Saturday April 30, 2011

Demolition crews have been caught ‘red-handed’ smashing and pulling down internal walls at the Flynn Primary School over the school holidays without a public development application and while heritage matters concerning the site are before the ACT Supreme Court >> Read on...

Stronger Requirements for Consideration of School Closure Proposals

Posted on Saturday June 26, 2010

Amendments to the ACT Education Act passed in the ACT Legislative Assembly should ensure a better consultation process around school closure proposals and ensure a much fuller analysis of the impact of proposed school closures. >> Read on...

Media Release 13 October 2009 - Flynn considers further action on school closures

Posted on Wednesday October 14, 2009

Following the scathing findings of the School Closure Inquiry, the Flynn Primary School Parents and Citizens Association is calling on the Greens to stand up for communities in the upcoming sittings of the Assembly, by supporting the re-opening of Flynn, Hall, Tharwa and Cook schools. >> Read on...

School Closure Report Fails to Deliver

Posted on Saturday September 19, 2009

The Education Committee of the ACT Legislative Assembly has delivered a weak-kneed report on school closures. It has failed to deliver a better process for considering school closure proposals in the future. It has dashed the hopes and expectations of many for a better approach. >> Read on...

Inquiry cop-out leaves cloud over Flynn

Posted on Friday September 18, 2009

The Flynn community welcomed today’s Education Standing Committee recommendation to re-open Hall and Tharwa primary schools but said the recommendation in regard to Flynn has put a cloud over Flynn’s future. >> Read on...

Media release 17 September 2009 - Hall community welcomes inquiry report

Posted on Friday September 18, 2009

Hall and district residents are delighted with the findings of the report on school closures by the Standing Committee on Education, Training and Youth Affairs tabled in the ACT Legislative Assembly this morning. >> Read on...

Looking Back at School Closure Issues in the ACT

Posted on Tuesday September 8, 2009

Convenor of Save Our Schools, Trevor Cobbold, delivered a paper on school mergers and closures to a forum in Adelaide on 3 September 2009 sponsored by the South Australian Branch of the Australian Education Union. >> Read on...

School Closures Questioned in South Australia

Posted on Tuesday September 8, 2009

Schools and preschools in South Australia are currently facing the greatest potential threat of closure and amalgamation ever seen in that State’s history. >> Read on...

School Closure Savings Figures are Outdated, Misleading and Not Believable

Posted on Wednesday August 12, 2009

The estimates of government savings from school closures during 2006-2008 presented to the Estimates Committee of the ACT Legislative Assembly recently are outdated, misleading and not believable. < >> Read on...

School Closures Under Challenge

Posted on Friday July 10, 2009

School closures continue to be a hot issue around Australia as communities question government programs to close schools and set up super schools. >> Read on...

School closures provide lessons in ‘how not to consult’

Posted on Saturday June 6, 2009

It was bittersweet news for suburban communities when the Chief Minister announced a consultation on how to consult, almost three years exactly after the Government began its infamous consultation on plans to close 23 government schools.< >> Read on...

SOS Presentation to the ACT Legislative Assembly Inquiry on School Closures

Posted on Thursday May 7, 2009

Statement by SOS Convenor, Trevor Cobbold, on 29 April to the Education Committee of the Legislative Assembly public hearing on the Towards 2020 school closure process. >> Read on...

Glasgow Save Our Schools Parents Stage Easter Sit-in Protest Over School Closures

Posted on Friday April 10, 2009

Parents at two Glasgow primary schools have staged a sit-in over Easter in protest about the schools being closed. >> Read on...

Most Children Attend Their Neighbourhood School

Posted on Wednesday November 15, 2006

The ACT Government’s own enrolment data refutes Government claims that the neighbourhood school is obsolete and that most students do not attend their local school. >> Read on...

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