FW: National standard for identifying students with disabilities

This could affect kids in the ACT quite a lot - we have less stringent
guidelines to do it than many other states.

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A NATIONAL standard for identifying students with disabilities is
expected to be approved by education ministers at a meeting of state and
federal governments in Melbourne today. If agreed, the national
definition would provide the government with nationally consistent data,
which could be used on the MySchool website, and help develop policy.
States have disparate numbers of students with a disability, with only
3.1 per cent in Western Australia, 11.8 per cent in the Northern
Territory and 4.8 per cent in Victoria.

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