US: Kids, teachers reunited after US tornado
MOORE, Oklahoma, May 23 - Students from a suburban Oklahoma City school destroyed by this week's tornado have reunited with their teachers and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.Some children carried thank you cards. A seven-year-old was eager to see her favourite gym teacher for a chance to say goodbye for the school year. Read more...
TAS: Giddings funds Gonski in state budget
DEVONPORT, Tas, May 23 - Tasmania will sign up to the federal government's Gonski school reforms, Premier Lara Giddings says after funding the package in her state budget.Giddings, who is also Tasmania's treasurer, included $83 million over four years to fund the reforms in the budget delivered on Thursday.
FED: Coalition puts own spin on Gonski
CANBERRA, May 22 - The Federal Coalition has committed to bringing in its own version of "Gonski" school funding reform should it win office in September.Opposition Education Spokesman Christopher Pyne made the pledge in letters sent to state and territory leaders outlining the coalition's approach to school funding.
FED: Gillard meets schoolkids in western Sydney
SYDNEY, May 22 - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has returned to Sydney's west, mingling with school children ahead of a community cabinet meeting.Gillard met students and teachers at Auburn West Primary School on Wednesday morning, ahead of the cabinet meeting at Regents Park Christian School in the safe Labor seat of Blaxland at 6pm (AEST).
FED: Abbott must axe curriculum: Vic Liberals
MELBOURNE, May 22 - Victorian Liberals are urging Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to dump the national curriculum if elected prime minister.The Young Liberal Policy Branch is expected to put a motion at the party's state council meeting in Melbourne this weekend calling for the national curriculum to be axed.
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