Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Part of the Education and Training portfolio and a Federal authority, also called ACARA

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is responsible for a national curriculum from kindergarten to Year 12, a national assessment program that measures students' progress and a national data collection and reporting program that supports analysis, evaluation, research and resource allocation, and accountability and reporting.

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ACARA Style/Writing/Brand guides
Request sent to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Glenn Hamiltonshire on .

Awaiting response.

This is a Freedom of Information Request for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982. I request access to the Style Guides/Brand Guide...
Copyright in My School website content
Request to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Mark R. Diamond. Annotated by Mark R. Diamond on .

Refused.

Rereading ACARA's response to my request, I'm struck by how (deliberately?) uninformative it is. Instead of saying, for example, that ACARA relies of s...
Contact details including emails for all Australian schools for PhD research purposes
Request to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by EN. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Refused.

The agency did not actually refuse the request. They just told the applicant not to bother pursuing their request.
FOI Delegations
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Ben Fairless on .

Successful.

Dear Ben   In response to your request below, I attach ACARA’s administrative release decision and the requested document.   Kind regards  ...
Requesting email addresses for Principals and Assistant Principals as part of my research
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Eddie Damian on .

Partially successful.

Dear Eddie   I refer to your Freedom of Information request and my response dated 15 June 2018. As I have not heard from you, unless you let me...
My School Data
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Lauren Johnson on .

Partially successful.

Dear Lauren Thanks for your emails. My name is Peter Matheson, Board Secretary, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). ACA...
Naplan Test as taken by my daughter
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Charles William Rose on .

Waiting clarification.

Dear Mr Rose   I confirm that your Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Minister for Education and Training (Cth) has been transferred to ACA...
ACARA killed a website?
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Josh Jones on .

Partially successful.

FOI INTERNAL REVIEW DECISION 3 June 2016 F16/27-28 Mr Josh Jones Right to Know website: www.righttoknow.org.au Dear Mr Jones Your FOI internal rev...
Names of schools on My School
Request to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Kylie Smith. Annotated by Kylie Smith on .

Successful.

In November I asked for the information and they told me it wasn't available. "ACARA does hold a list of schools involved in NAPLAN testing in 2015, bu...
Names of schools what got tested in 2015
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Kylie Smith on .

Withdrawn by the requester.

Dear Ms Smith Thank you for taking into consideration our time/resources. I will treat your FOI request as withdrawn. As noted below, we will now as...
Cost of legal advice in 2011
Follow up sent to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Mark R. Diamond on .

Partially successful.

Many thanks for the information in your email of 27 August 2015. Yours sincerely, Mark R. Diamond
'Divine Mercy College' 326 Yangebup Rd, Yangebup, WA 6164: Year 7 NAPLAN numeracy results for 2014, are confirmed as being correct?
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Martin Jowsey on .

Refused.

Dear Mr Jowsey Please refer to my responses to your previous enquiries, available here: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/reason_why_divine_mercy...
Reason why 'Divine Mercy College' 326 Yangebup Rd, Yangebup, WA 6164. Has been removed from MySchool website.
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Martin Jowsey on .

Refused.

Dear Mr Jowsey ACARA does not hold identified student NAPLAN results (i.e. does not hold student names or any other means of identification) so it can...
Myschool schools
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Kylie Smith on .

Successful.

Dear Ms Smith Thank you for both withdrawing your FOI and agreeing to close the request via Right to Know. Happy to be able to assist. Best wishes Pe...
Request for correspondence relating to terms of use of My School
Request to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Mark R. Diamond. Annotated by Mark R. Diamond on .

Successful.

The documents are interesting primarily for what they do not contain, rather than what they do ... by which I most definitely do not mean to imply that...
Names of schools on My School
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Kylie Smith on .

Successful.

Dear Ms Smith Thank-you for your prompt response and for withdrawing your FOI request. I'm very pleased that we were able to point you towards the inf...
Equivalent NAPLAN scores
Follow up sent to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Kylie Smith on .

Successful.

Thank you very much for your reply to my request, for your help in sending me the tables from earlier years, and for guiding my request for the 2013...
Results from ACARA Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
Follow up sent to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Kylie Smith on .

Successful.

I'm sorry about the subject line. I can see on the preview of my email that it says "Fake response" and I can't change it. I don't know why. The r...
NAPLAN
Request to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Red. Annotated by Red on .

Refused.

I have made an application to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) for review of this decision.
Where is the evidence for "fossil fuel"?
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Leon Carter on .

Information not held.

Dear Mr Carter,   Thank you for your query of 21 July regarding the use of the phrase “fossil fuels” in the Australian Curriculum: Science. I apol...

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