LNP has done absolutely nothing for public schools: Faruqi

Mehreen Faruqi

By Mehreen Faruqi
Community contribution / December 12, 2019

It certainly hasn’t been the year in education policy teachers hoped for, or the one that students deserved.

I shared your hope that the federal election would see a reset on schools policy and the opportunity to forge ...

This story appeared in the December 2019 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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