Our analysis suggests that the rate of progress per year for the Year 3 cohort has increased 40 per cent within DI programs since the introduction of the Academy. While progress is significant, it is slower than needed to achieve our goal that all students be at or above year level at the time of testing.
A case for complementing ‘learning demand’ side reforms effected by the Cape York Welfare Reforms with ‘teaching supply’ side reforms, through the establishment of a specialist K–7 remote schools provider under the aegis of a statutory board led by Noel Pearson which has legislative delegation within the Queensland public schools system to provide education where parent communities support alternative provisioning.