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Victoria and the Howard Government are headed for a showdown over school reports, after the state unveiled a new report card today that rejects federal demands that students be ranked against their classmates.
Premier Steve Bracks and Education Minister Lynne Kosky launched a new report card that will see the state`s 540,000 government school students will receive A to E grades from next year.
But the report card does not include rankings within each class, from the top 25 per cent to the bottom 25 per cent.
Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson has made the introduction of A to E grades and class rankings a condition of federal schools funding provided to the states, worth $570 million a year to Victoria.
Today, Dr Nelson said the Victorian government risked losing federal government funding.
“The Victorian government needs to know that (the report) will tell parents how they are going in relation to other children, both across the state and in relation to their own class,“ Dr Nelson told reporters in Sydney.
“The Victorian government is putting at risk $600 million a year in Australian government funding for its schools.“
He said the Victorian government should give parents the opportunity to say what information they wanted about their child`s education.
“Mr Bracks is currently at a C-plus…if he wants to go to be an A and get the full marks from the Australian government, he will tell parents how their kids in Victoria are going in relation to other kids in the rest of the class,“ Dr Nelson said.
The Government argues that Victoria`s A to E system, under which students are graded expected state standards, is more robust than the federal plan.
“Let`s see what happens,” Mr Bracks said after today`s launch of the report at Livingstone Primary School in Vermont South.
Mr Bracks said school reports had always been the domain of state governments. “It unusual that the federal minister would use a funding mechanism to try to impose the will of a federal government on state-based administrations,” he said.
Under the Victorian system, an A will mean “well above” the expected standard; a B “above” the standard; a C “at the standard"; a D ” below” the standard; and E “well below” the standard.
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