• August 2010: Please read the recent press release from Principals Australia, Principals' associations welcome support for principals to lead and manage more autonomous schools  Click here
  
  
• July 2010: Principals Australia congratulates Jeremy Hurley on becoming the new National Project Coordinator for KidsMatter Primary.
  
  
• June 2010: Liz Furler, the new CEO writes: "Principals Australia is undergoing significant change as it positions itself to more effectively support its owner principals associations and their profession, as well as principals and their schools, in the rapidly changing national education landscape..."
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• May 2010: Heather Parkes has recently been appointed PA National Business Manager.

The John Laing Professional Development Award is a peer nominated celebration of school leadership and professional learning. Its aim is to celebrate leadership learning: for school leaders by school leaders.

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• Education has the power to transform lives but a recent report by Anglicare Victoria and Wesley Mission Victoria shows vulnerable children in out-of-home care are struggling at school and many are falling behind their peers.
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• A major research report by Prof Jack Keating, arguing for systemic reform to school funding in Australia, was released on Thursday 1 July by Education Foundation, a division of The Foundation for Young Australians. Download and read the full report by clicking here.
  
  
• A letter from ACARA to school principals providing an overview of the developments for the My School website was distributed on 21 June following the first meeting of the My School Working Party.
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• What Teachers Want: Better Teacher Management analyses the work undertaken in the OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey.
  Visit the Grattan Institute website to download a copy >>
  
  
• What is happening in the USA? In Strong Leaders Strong Schools: 2009 School Leadership Laws, the National Conference of State Legislatures offers its annual roundup of new state legislation to improve education leadership.
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