General
The left’s war against school transparency is a war against choice and quality

NAPLAN scare campaigns about the potential harm of ‘school league tables’ are little more than hot air — often whipped up by vested interests in the endless war on educational accountability.
This year’s recent update to data on the MySchool website — where among others, school NAPLAN results are hosted — is noticeably scarce. With no exams held in 2020, there are no NAPLAN results to report. Reporting on student attendance was relegated to the too-hard basket because schools were closed — although in some jurisdictions for as little as one week.
Setting this aside, there has been criticism about directions on how information collected from MySchool can be reported. Namely, recently updated terms of…
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