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The Supreme Court may have struck down a sweeping plan for student loan debt forgiveness, but under President Biden's new income-driven repayment plan, SAVE, borrowers stand to pay thousands less.

On the economic merits, we support President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student loan debt for 26 million Americans. Rejecting more sweeping proposals that would have benefited the already well-off, the president and his Education Department smartly focused the most relief on those in the…

Attendance rates at Northern Territory schools are continuing to fall, with the attendance rate of the most-remote schools slipping below 50 per cent, according to the latest government figures.

Andrew Connor is among the 145,000 people who may have been compromised by the cyber attack on Tasmanians and he wants government officials to be clear on what information has been leaked — and why they have held on to his details seven years on.

A former Tasmanian school principal tells the Supreme Court he did not follow all the proper procedures when an allegation of abuse against former student Katrina Munting was reported to him.

Just one in four students in Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing are regularly attending school, with other communities recording similar falls since 2020.

This was never about shielding just the youngest kids from sexual topics.

A high school teacher who sexually abused one of his students in the late 1990s was given the option to resign, rather than face further investigation, a Tasmanian court hears.

When she was a student in the 1990s, Katrina Munting was sexually abused by a teacher, who was later jailed for three years. Now, she is suing that former teacher and the government, in a case believed to be the first of its kind in the state.