Public Schools

Alternative arrangements are being made for hundreds of students at Deniliquin High School after a fire tore through two buildings containing a library and classrooms.

Tasmania's education department and a bus company have both appeared in court after a child with a disability was allegedly left unattended on a bus with access to a bottle of engine coolant in a plastic water bottle.

Roos star — and grade 6 teacher — Ash Riddell has an entire school behind her ahead of this Saturday's AFLW grand final.

SA's Minister for Education, Blair Boyer, is calling on retailers to help pay the climbing clean-up bill for removing coloured sand products linked to the asbestos scare.

The closure of four school bus routes next year has shocked parents and the bus route providers, who heard the news through the media.

As a new week begins for Top End residents still recovering from the damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Fina, questions remain for many about what happens next.

E-bikes have become a regular sight in Sydney's coastal suburbs. Their surge in popularity among school-aged children has been matched by a rise in injuries.

Schools closed as a result of the coloured sand recall are starting to reopen, however some will remain closed on Friday.

One school which had earlier been re-opened will now be closed for the rest of the week.

The SA and ACT education ministers are calling for a national inquiry into how coloured play sand contaminated with asbestos was imported into the country, with more than 450 SA Department for Education sites now impacted. 

More than 50 Tasmanian schools will either close or be partially closed from Wednesday in response to ongoing public health concerns relating to asbestos in coloured sand.

More schools have reopened in Canberra, with a list of current closures to be updated today.

The number of public education sites in South Australia that have reported coloured sand linked to an asbestos contamination scare rises above 350, but authorities say there is no plan for closures at this stage.

Dozens of schools remain closed in the ACT, Tasmania and South Australia today as the clean-up and disposal of potentially asbestos-laced coloured sand continues. What risk does it actually pose?

Dozens of public schools in the ACT will reopen or partially open on Tuesday, but 25 remain closed for all students.

The ACT has closed 70 schools over the coloured sand asbestos scare. Why is it the only jurisdiction to do so? 

The ACT will close more schools after additional coloured sand products were recalled by Kmart and Target, while the schools that were shut on Friday will reopen on Monday. 

Kmart has recalled four coloured sand products over concerns of asbestos contamination, prompting the ACT education department to close dozens more schools. 

Despite thousands of cases of food poisoning, Indonesia's government intends to expand a controversial program giving schoolchildren free meals.

Coloured sand products linked to an asbestos contamination scare have so far been identified at more than 100 sites in South Australia following checks at schools and preschools, the state's education department says.