Billboard rolls into Hunter urging PM not to shortchange local kids
26 March 2024
Section: Media Release
The Prime Minister and local federal Labor MPs will be urged to fully resource public schools across the Hunter region…
Prime Minister urged not to shortchange Mid North Coast kids
15 March 2024
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation is ramping up its campaign to fully resource public schools in Coffs Harbour and the Mid…
Prime Minister urged not to shortchange Dubbo kids
13 March 2024
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation is ramping up its campaign to fully resource public schools in Dubbo and the Central West,…
Prime Minister urged not to shortchange New England-North West kids
12 March 2024
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation is ramping up its campaign to fully resource public schools in the New England-North West region,…
Prime Minister urged not to shortchange Northern Rivers kids
6 March 2024
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation is ramping up its campaign to fully resource public schools in Northern Rivers, encouraging the Prime…
Prime Minister urged not to shortchange Wagga Wagga kids
4 March 2024
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation is ramping up its campaign to fully resource public schools in Wagga Wagga, encouraging the Prime…
Teachers, principals and parents unite in funding push
8 February 2024
Section: Media Release
Teachers, parents and principals have united in a joint appeal to the Prime Minister to plug a $1.9 billion funding…
Investing in the future demands better resourced schools
1 February 2024
Section: News
Australia numbers among a small elite of the world’s most prosperous, stable and democratic societies. How is it then that…
Teachers back Minns and Car in fight for education funding
1 February 2024
Section: Media Release
NSW teachers have endorsed the strong determination of Premier Chris Minns and Education Minister Prue Car to secure full funding…
Ensuring all reach potential
27 November 2023
Section: Columns
Enabling Equity: Education Quarterly, Issue 8 2023 Through the national For Every Child campaign teachers continue to ensure students with…
Stand united for high-quality public education
14 November 2023
Section: Columns
We are at a crucial juncture in the fight for the provision of high-quality public education in NSW. The salary…
Reform funding on need
16 August 2022
Section: Columns
The proportion of students with higher needs in NSW public schools has grown significantly. In 2002, one in 25 students had a disability; now one in five students in metropolitan schools and more than one in three in remote schools are receiving an adjustment to their support due to disability.
Rorris illuminates government overfunding of private schools
5 July 2022
Section: News
A new report authored by senior economist Adam Rorris has revealed the NSW Government is overfunding NSW private schools by almost $850 million, while choosing to underfund public schools by $2 billion every single year.
Ensuring the highest quality public education
5 July 2022
Section: News
Delegates have endorsed a plan for Senior Officers to develop a campaign to build support for a new bilateral agreement, which will include enough funding to ensure all public schools are funded at 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS).
Coalition’s $10bn in sweeteners for private schools while public schools remain underfunded.
28 April 2022
Section: News
The Coalition Government has shelled out more than $10 billion in special deals to private schools during its time in office while 99 per cent of public schools have gone underfunded, a new report has revealed.
Federal funding shortfall exposed at Principals’ Conference
28 March 2022
Section: News
More than 250 public school principals gathered at Federation’s auditorium in Sydney on Friday, 24 March, to discuss education policy…
New federal campaign set to make public education funding a top election issue
23 March 2021
Section: News
Teachers and principals have had enough of federal political parties failing to take their share of responsibility for public school funding and intend to make it a major issue at the next election, Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos said today.