Education system
Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (10:06): I think we should join all parents across the state in being incredibly proud of the performance of our kids in the latest round of NAPLAN results, released today, which show that Victorian kids are thriving at school, bucking a national trend. Seventy per cent of the students in Victoria earned results in NAPLAN across the domains of reading, writing and numeracy that either were strong or exceeded record levels of attainment, and Victorian students ranked first or second in 18 of the 20 measures used to assess performance. I think most importantly, there were fewer students struggling across all subjects and all age groups. These results only occur when you value the education you are providing to our children. This Labor government is investing in our schools, upgrading classrooms, building new schools and, importantly, delivering evidence-based teaching and learning with the rollout of structured and synthetic phonics and more explicit education, supporting our teachers so that they can make sure our students are learning and learning well.