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In 2006, Albert Park College in inner city Melbourne was closed after enrollments plummeted.
A group of determined parents rallied and convinced the education department to give the publicly funded school a second chance.
The old buildings were bulldozed and a new school began to take shape.
In 2010, Steven Cook was appointed principal of the new school which at that stage had no furniture, no staff or students or even a name.
Eleven years later Albert Park College was voted Australian School of the Year.
Steven Cook has written a book about the turnaround, and how a successful school was created where a previous one had failed.
