新南威尔士州中学隐私法改革 - 学生家长可能查看NSW学校成绩的详细信息。

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新南威尔士州中学隐私法改革 - 家长可查学校排名

学生家长可能查看NSW学校成绩的详细信息。
对很多华人家长来说，可能是一个好消息。
对很多西人父母来说，恰恰相反，这可能是个坏消息。

NSW政府可能决定取消过去严格的隐私法来换取澳洲联邦政府的更多教育资金。

州政府说，禁止公布学校排名的法律可能会被取消。

这个条例是1997年设立的，当时设立的原因是因为，一所在西悉尼的Mount Druitt高中在1996年的HSC中排名低于45，而被悉尼的一家报纸列为“不及格学校”。

目前只有NSW有这样的禁止学校排名公布的立法。也正是有了这项立法，家长无权知道学校HSC和Basic Skill Test（现在叫NAPLAN）的结果和大学升学率的排名。

教育部长Verity Firth正在咨询法律顾问来决定是否推翻1997年制定的这项法案。

新的学校报告将会公布，相似大小和不同区域学校的全国文理测验的成绩排名。尽管州政府过去反对公布学校成绩排名，但是州教育部长已同意将资料提供给联邦政府教育部，来换取NSW学校在未来四年里4亿澳元的国家教育经费。

州教育部的发言人说，尽管NSW不赞成这些单一的学校排名，但是如果有必要修改这项法案的话，我们将向家长及社会提供丰富有意义的学校资料，而不是简单的学校成绩排名。

澳洲教育研究委员会已经向联邦政府递交了一份报告，建议在全国范围内，收集各学校Year3，5，7，9学生的文理考试成绩和大学升学率的资料。

NSW教师协会不同意修改这些法案，并且威胁说，如果学生成绩被用作学校排名的话，他们将拒绝参加全国性的考试（比如NAPLAN）。

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/no-league-tables-for-nsw-schools-firth-20090506-av0g.html

No league tables for NSW schools

FirthNick Ralston
May 6, 2009

NSW won't return to the days of "crude, simplistic league tables" if it allows parents to access information about school performance, Education Minister Verity Firth says.

The state government is prepared to amend legislation introduced in 1997 that has prevented the publication of school league tables, she said on Wednesday.

The changes will be made if they are necessary to provide data to the commonwealth under the National Education Agreement, she says.

That agreement is linked to $4 billion worth of funding over four years for NSW public schools.

"If it is the case that the legislation amendment is needed in order for us to be able to provide our data to the federal government as part of the transparency agenda then we will do so, we will make that amendment," Ms Firth told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday.

"We really believe that parents have a right to know how their children are going, that parents have a right to know how their schools are performing and that teachers have access to that data too.

"We really are shoulder to shoulder with the commonwealth with this."

The legislation banning school league tables was introduced after a newspaper story about Mount Druitt High in western Sydney, when all Year 12 students at the school received tertiary entrance ranks below 45 in the 1996 Higher School Certificate.

Ms Firth said returning to publishing information about the performance of schools would not be a return to instances like that.

"We're not in favour of crude, simplistic league tables," she said.

"It doesn't give anyone a huge boost to be able to compare Vaucluse Public School with Broken Hill Public School."

Ms Firth's comments came as she stood beside federal Education Minister Julia Gillard and Premier Nathan Rees to announce funding of $642 million for NSW schools.

This is the first round in the $14.7 billion education spending component of the federal government's $42 billion stimulus package.

It has been allocated to 410 primary schools in NSW.

Ms Gillard has defended the decision to give some of the money to wealthy private schools, saying primary schools that have missed out will benefit from the two subsequent rounds of funding.

"This is a program to benefit all primary schools," she said.

"Because we wanted to support jobs today we've worked ... to identify those schools that are ready to go first."

NSW Greens MP John Kaye said it was inappropriate for wealthy private schools to be given funding for improving facilities that most public schools don't even have.

"Barker College already has three halls. The exclusive north shore school is receiving money for a fourth," he said.

"Many NSW public schools do not have halls."

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澳洲什么都是垄断，还是政府无法对付的垄断，连老师这个行业都被垄断了