Media items selected by the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) as an update on secondary education and union issues in the news, with the main focus on New Zealand.
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1. Principals want power to search students
2. Bay teens risk prosecution over Facebook sites
3. Struggle ahead for fast-track teachers
4. Pupils' marks factor in funding decisions
5. Hekia Parata speaks at the opening of Learning@School 2012
6. Building the future of science and mathematics at Kuranui
7. Rolls up but fees remain the same
8. Rolls up for many SC schools
9. School books give way to e-learning
10. School stationery rules irk parents
11. Teacher accused of faking daughter's grades
12. Threat of league tables hangs over the start to school
13. Class envy belongs to Middle Ages (Australia)
14. Maths, physics fail to get the numbers at school (Australia)
15. Teachers threaten strike over Queensland state school ratings (Australia)
16. State schools hover on the brink of huge private sector revolution (UK)
17. Government needs change in policy direction (Industrial)