Good to Great Schools Australia

The company is an education organisation that (a) operates schools and support delivery of high quality, high expectations education through direct assistance to disadvantaged children in Australian schools including (i) schoolbased literacy and numeracy programs as are available to middle class children in advantaged neighbourhoods, (ii) character development programs that support disadvantaged children to build the resilience they need to navigate through life making good decisions, (iii) schoolbased extracurricular programs as are available to middle class children in advantaged neighbourhoods, (iv) indigenous culture and language programs to affirm aboriginal children s rights to keep their culture, self identity and social wellbeing, (v) supporting identification and treatment of unique special needs of all students in a school; (b) builds education opportunities for disadvantaged peoples in Australia with the overarching aim of improvement their employment and education prospects and contributing to breaking the nexus between welfare, poverty and social dysfunction; (c) incorporates Cape York Welfare Reform principles and practices into school operations which include (i) promoting parental responsibility of student attendance and school readiness (including child health and hygiene, nutrition and uniforms), (ii) engaging individuals, families and communities in their children s education; (d) builds and advances partnerships with government and nongovernment agencies.