Fed: Union votes to ban NAPLAN tests=2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2010
Fed: Union votes to ban NAPLAN tests=2

Ms Gillard told reporters the union had made the wrong decision, and she urged teachers
to stay the course and administer the tests.

"The best teachers around the country are the teachers who are driven by the data and
the information and who believe that it should be shared," she said.

The government would look at a range of options to have the tests supervised, including
using parents, she said.

"One option very clearly on the table is for us to ask parents who have voted with
their fingertips on My School to vote with their feet and to assist to manage the tests,"

she said.

Industrial action by teachers to boycott the tests would likely be unprotected under
most state systems, she said.

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