Learning Commission Report: Connecting schools with communities

Abstract

Pursuing Equity Through Rich Accountabilities (PETRA) is an Australian Research Council funded Linkage project being conducted through a partnership between researchers at The University of Queensland, Victoria University, and the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment (DETE). The PETRA project has been conducted with a group of eight schools in the Wide Bay Burnett region of Queensland at the behest of DETE. This region is among the lowest SES areas in Queensland, where education is more regionalised than elsewhere in Australia.