My School - profile 10,000 Australian Schools
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). "My School enables you to search the profiles of almost 10,000 Australian schools. You can quickly locate statistical and contextual information about schools in your community and compare them with statistically similar schools across the country..."
Further information on My School - profile 10,000 Australian Schools
Last updated: 7 March 2011
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By any reading, parents flock to schools website
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by Justine Ferrari, Education writer. The Australian, November 20, 2010. "The new version of the MySchool website is awash with information on student performance. The trick is knowing how to use it. When the MySchool website launched in January, it was swamped by parents eager for information about their child's school. For the first time parents could compare the test results of students in different schools, not just in the same neighbourhood but across the nation and the public and private sectors. While parents welcomed the unprecedented access to school data, many echoed Oliver Twist: More, please. Next month they will get their wish with the launch of MySchool 2.0, which offers a dramatic expansion of the information available on each of the nation's 10,000 or so schools..."
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Financial data to be on My School website
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My School 2.0 is expected to go live this week, by AAP. Computerworld, 28 February, 2011. "Potentially sensitive financial information is to be made public as part of the federal government's revamped My School website, which will place even greater public scrutiny on the nation's schools. The second version of the My School website, My School 2.0, goes live on 4 March..."
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Gillard defends My School 2.0 launch
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My School 2.0 site will aid education choices despite concerns the site will show a disparity of funding between private, public and Catholic schools, by Tim Lohman. Computerworld, 2 March, 2011. "Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has defended the government's My School 2.0 website against claims that the Australian education system operates on a level playing field..."
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Lid lifted on private school cash
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by Dan Harrison. The Age, March 4, 2011. "Independent schools in Victoria are the best resourced schools in Australia, according to data to be published for the first time today on the Gillard government's controversial My School website. The website, which is being relaunched today after an aborted start last year, will show that Victoria's independent schools operate on an average of $15,201 per student..."
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My School 2.0 gets release date
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By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, February 10, 2011. "Minister for School Education Peter Garrett provided a release date in question time today for version two of the Federal Government's public school comparison website, My School. According to the minister, Australia will see version two of the My School website officially go live on 4 March with new reporting and comparison features available on Australia's almost 10,000 schools..."
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My School 2.0 goes live
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Premier of Victoria Media Release, Friday 4 March 2011. "My School 2.0, the latest version of the My School website, officially went live at 10am this morning, announced the Chair of the Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs, Victorian Education Minister Martin Dixon, on behalf of his State, Territory and Federal colleagues. 'My School offers a comprehensive picture of the performance, student make-up, and finances of nearly 10,000 Australian schools' Mr Dixon said. This year's version of the site not only includes schools' performance on National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests and a more refined Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) to help place these results in context, but also information about each school's income and capital expenditures..."
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My School gives parents more information than ever
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Joint Media Release, The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister; The Hon Peter Garrett MP, Minister for School Education, Minister for Early Childhood and Youth, Friday 24 February 2012. "Australian parents and teachers can now track how children have improved over time in the key areas of literacy and numeracy with the launch of the newest version of the My School website.
The updated website measures the progress of students who have sat NAPLAN tests over the past four years, allowing parents to identify schools that have helped their students noticeably improve in comparison with other students who started at the same level..."
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My School still wrong: Private schools
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But My School 2.0 launch goes ahead anyway, by AAP. Computerworld, 4 March, 2011. "The Federal Government will go ahead with the long overdue relaunch of its My School website, despite private schools maintaining their entries are wrong. School education minister, Peter Garrett, gave journalists a confidential briefing on the improved site's new features on Thursday, ahead of its public unveiling at 10am on Friday..."
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My School website launched
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The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Minister for Education, Media release, 28 January, 2010. "The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today officially launched the My School website during a visit to Tempe High School in Sydney. The My School website went live this morning and has had more than 1.5 million hits as Australians have logged on to access comprehensive information about their local school..."
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Parents to see school income online as part of revamped My School website
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by Jenny Dillon. Herald Sun, November 15, 2010. "Parents will be able to compare the dollar figure spent on each child in every school as part of a dramatic revamp of the controversial My School website. For the first time, parents will be able to contrast how much money is devoted to educating children in both public and private schools. The source of the funding will also be placed on the Federal Government's website, which caused controversy because it allowed the creation of league tables on the academic performance of each school. This week the Government will announce its second phase of the website, the new financing component..."
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Parents' guide to My School website
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by Justine Ferrari. The Australian, January 27, 2010. "The My School website at www.myschool.edu.au, contains a report on every school in the nation, government and non-government schools alike, for the first time collating student results in national literacy and numeracy tests as well as other information..."
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Principals unite against 'unfair' My School site
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By Tim Leslie. ABC Online, March 25, 2010. "While the Federal Government's My School website has proved to be popular among parents, teachers and principals say it is unfairly stigmatising schools. Principals across Australia have voiced their opposition to the website in a survey conducted by the Australian Education Union, which found more than 80 per cent did not think the site gave an accurate description of their school..."
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Public schools want more from My School
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The site is set to be relaunched this Friday, by AAP. Computerworld, 1 March, 2011. "Public schools are worried that the next version of the federal government's My School website will not provide parents with enough financial information..."
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Schools funding disparity inevitable: Govt
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My School 2.0 launches today, by AAP. Computerworld, 4 March, 2011. "The Federal Government has defended the funding discrepancies between schools - as revealed in its My School 2.0 website - as "inevitable". The improved site is due to be launched on Friday with a range of new features, including a school's finances or how much government funding it receives..."
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Some schools don't verify MySchool data
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My School 2.0 launches today, by AAP. Computerworld, 4 March, 2011. "31 independent schools in Queensland did not tick off the financial data that was used for the revamped My School website, Independent Schools Queensland says. The Federal Government is relaunching the controversial website at 9am (AEST) Friday to include figures on how much money is spent on each student and a revised Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage, which compares like schools..."