Education & TAFE

Question on Notice to the Minister for Education regarding Dulwich Hill Public School and the rezoning for the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor.

Question on Notice to the Minister for Education regarding electronic signage on public school grounds.

Question on Notice to the Minister for Education regarding how many school counsellors were employed between 2012 til 2017.

Question in Notice to the Minister for Education regarding the procedural response from the Department of Planning and/or the Minister for Education if a Principal requests advice as to how to enrol a student whose SRE Participation Form is not returned.

Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill, today expressed her ongoing support for the young women, activists and students fighting for action on the issue of sexual assault on campus, in light of the Australian Human Rights Commission report released yesterday.

The NSW Labor Opposition has pledged to work with all stakeholders to address the recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Change the Course: National Report on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at Australian Universities.

The fury the P&C Federation is expressing over primary students being forced to waste their precious school hours is absolutely justified. The NSW Special Religious Education regime is an anachronistic mess. It is 2017 and we cannot afford to be profligate with the precious time our children have to learn. 

Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill, has expressed outrage that the West Street Petersham TAFE site has been left virtually empty following delays from the Department of Education in moving Open High School to the site. 

The Budget ignores key community infrastructure in the inner west, with only one local school receiving badly-needed classrooms and little support for residents on housing affordability, transport, or child-care. 

Jo Haylen, Member for Summer Hill, today welcomed the Minister for Education’s acknowledgement of the toxic culture at residential university colleges and that the Government would review the Acts that govern them.