Latest news: Angela Burroughs

A late-Friday direction to teachers taking protected industrial action was withdrawn after the AEU challenged the ACT Education Directorate.

The ACT Government has promised to overhaul public schooling after a review found schools were under strain.

The two-hour stop work action on Friday follows months of stalled bargaining, the Australian Education Union ACT branch says.

Since January, part-time teachers over 60 pay lower fees and do fewer hours of professional learning to register.

ACT Labor has claimed its seventh consecutive term in government, beginning an unbroken stretch of 27 years in power.

Today's election promises: more social and affordable housing (Liberals); women's health, mental health, school upgrades (Labor).

Although a third of Australian students are not meeting basic literacy and numeracy standards, the ACT is performing well above the average, according to the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results released today.

Canberra students' literacy and numeracy rates are dire; can the ACT Government's $25 million investment turn them around?

Angela Burroughs, branch president of the Australian Education Union (AEU) ACT, gives the ACT Government their report card for this term.