Fed: QTU boycott of NAPLAN test continues

By EducationHQ News Team
Published May 5, 2010

naplan BRISBANE - Public school teachers in Queensland will go through with an illegal boycott of the national literacy and numeracy tests ...

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Fed: QTU boycott of NAPLAN test continues

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