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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy and Tamsin Rose

Sydney public high schools to go co-ed in Labor shake-up as parents face tough choices

Students working on laptops
New South Wales has 131 single-sex schools, 21 of which are public, compared with eight in Victoria and two in Tasmania. Photograph: Alan Porritt/AAP

Families in some parts of Sydney where all the local high schools are single-sex will have the option of a co-educational school from 2025, the state government has announced, while others will have to wait until 2027.

Parents have been lobbying for change for years, and in the lead-up to this year’s state election, Chris Minns pledged parents would have guaranteed access to co-educational public schools within Labor’s first term of government.

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