Qld teachers fail in bid to boycott NAPLAN

State school teachers in the Queensland Teachers’ Union voted almost unanimously to boycott teaching the controversial test to pupils in October last year.
However, in an internal memo circulated to all Department of Education staff on Friday, director-general Tony Cook announced the industrial dispute had been slapped down by the courts.“The department considered the directive to be unprotected industrial action, and therefore unlawful, and sought the assistance of the Queensland…



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