The Council for the Australian Federation comprises the Premiers and Chief Ministers of all States and Territories. This report includes a new statement on the future of schooling in Australia, and a twelve-point action plan to which all states and territories have agreed.

The report proposes a national framework for schooling, based on the principle that the quality and performance of teachers, schools and jurisdictions are central to the life prospects of every student and to national prosperity.

In October 2006, the Council established a steering committee, chaired by Professor Peter Dawkins, Secretary of the Victorian Department of Education, to review the Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century, which was jointly signed by the States, Territories and the Commonwealth in 1999.

Read the full text of The future of schooling in Australia (PDF file).

Source: Australian Policy Online.