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A plan for settlement
Settlement of the staffing dispute will require a statewide staffing system including genuine service transfers.
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The Premier must act
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Industrial action on staffing to continue
Federation members around the state have followed up the strongly supported statewide strikes on April 8 and May 22 with locally-organised stopwork protest action in the staffing campaign.
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Action to defend professional standards in TAFE
City and Broken Hill TAFE teachers have stopped work over the downgrading of teacher education qualifications.
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Keen interest in salaries and inflation movements
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Just tell us the truth about academies

Put bluntly, they get rid of the difficult kids, tweak their intake with self-managed banding systems, or dump difficult subjects in favour of easier ones.

The government's claim that standards are rising faster in academies than in other schools in similar circumstances is flawed because the only schools in similar circumstance are other academies, says Fiona Millar.

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