Federal Labor's Commitment To Lift School Standards
Source: Australian Labor Party. Media Release
"A Rudd Labor Government will focus on achieving higher standards, greater accountability and better results from our school system. Federal Labor is determined to lift the standard of every one of our 9,217 schools. Federal Labor will pursue improvements to our school performance that benefit the more than 1.4 million secondary students and almost 2 million primary school students. These reforms are aimed at lifting school retention rates from 75 to 90 per cent by 2020."