NSW has almost 50 academically elite government schools, while Victoria has just four. The Victorian opposition says Melbourne’s outer north and the state’s regional centres should get some.
A lower percentage of regional students met minimum standards for literacy and numeracy, while the reading skills of metro students were more than a year ahead of their country counterparts.
Devenish Primary is one of Victoria’s 10 “ghost schools” – tiny schools that are not officially shut but were stripped of teachers. But some families are fighting to keep them open.
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