Public Schools

Tasmanian students and teachers of St Helens District High School defy the Stieglitz bushfire to rescue formal wear, assemble decorations and food and hold their year 10 formal.

A 10th teenager is charged over an alleged premeditated gang attack at Ellenbrook Secondary College on Monday that left a student with stab wounds.

Most public schools in Burnie, Launceston and Hobart will close for half a day this Friday, as union members demand action on rising school violence and unfair wages.

A gang of youths armed with knives and an axe travelled across Perth to carry out a "premeditated" attack at a Perth high school that left a 15-year-old boy with stab wounds, a court hears.

A former Cairns state primary school teacher has been jailed for 17 years for dozens of child exploitation offences involving children from the school where he worked.

Forty-one signatories to an open letter say they are "dismayed" and that school rankings cause "harm to our communities".

Parents at a South Australian school say they have been left in the dark about photos taken by a principal during a school camp.

As staff shortages "near crisis point", these Queensland schools are going to extraordinary lengths to put teachers in classrooms — and keep them there.

Two teenage boys have been charged over a weekend fire that extensively damaged Deniliquin High School in the NSW Riverina.

An image of spiders' legs in the shape of the logo of an Adelaide high school is among several bizarre clues that have been released in the hope they could help police identify the person who is behind a series of threatening emails.

Public school parents in New South Wales have been advised school closures may occur on days of elevated fire danger.

Alternative arrangements are being made for hundreds of students at Deniliquin High School after a fire tore through two buildings containing a library and classrooms.

Tasmania's education department and a bus company have both appeared in court after a child with a disability was allegedly left unattended on a bus with access to a bottle of engine coolant in a plastic water bottle.

Roos star — and grade 6 teacher — Ash Riddell has an entire school behind her ahead of this Saturday's AFLW grand final.

SA's Minister for Education, Blair Boyer, is calling on retailers to help pay the climbing clean-up bill for removing coloured sand products linked to the asbestos scare.

The closure of four school bus routes next year has shocked parents and the bus route providers, who heard the news through the media.

As a new week begins for Top End residents still recovering from the damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Fina, questions remain for many about what happens next.

E-bikes have become a regular sight in Sydney's coastal suburbs. Their surge in popularity among school-aged children has been matched by a rise in injuries.

Schools closed as a result of the coloured sand recall are starting to reopen, however some will remain closed on Friday.

One school which had earlier been re-opened will now be closed for the rest of the week.