Media release: Students with disability to increase by 50% within a decade
3 September 2020
Section: Media Release
A confidential NSW Department of Education disability strategy obtained under FOI laws has revealed inadequacies in planning for the state’s students with disabilities.
Media release: Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry
28 August 2020
Section: Media Release
Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry will begin public hearings on Monday 31 August in Sydney and continue until Thursday 10 September.
Media release: A cruel blow for students as Govt threatens school funding
25 June 2020
Section: Media Release
The Berejiklian Government must not be allowed to use students as pawns in its attempt to impose a wage freeze across the public sector.
Media release: New curriculum requires additional resources
23 June 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has welcomed the unhurried approach and commitment to working with teachers in the development and implementation of the new curriculum.
Media release: Treasurer’s pay cut ‘deal’ is unacceptable
1 June 2020
Section: Media Release
Teachers will not accept the Treasurer’s latest attempt to impose a pay cut on the profession.
Media release: Teachers reject pay cut
27 May 2020
Section: Media Release
In the week of the full resumption of NSW public schools, teachers and principals have been rewarded with a slap in the face.
Media release: Normal school operations must end to put the health and safety of students and staff first
25 March 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation Executive met this morning and unanimously endorsed the following:
Media release: Coronavirus advice conflicting, contradictory and impossible
17 March 2020
Section: Media Release
Schools must be given clear advice on action to be taken in the event that health protocols necessary to control the spread of COVID-19 cannot be implemented.
Media release: Morrison’s gifts to private schools now valued at almost $5 billion – public schools get nothing
2 March 2020
Section: Media Release
Today’s announcement by the Morrison Government has confirmed the Federal Government’s special deals with private schools have reached almost $5 billion, while public schools get nothing.
Media release: TAFE review must restore funding and courses
25 February 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos said the union would take the opportunity presented by the TAFE review to highlight the failed privatisation policies of successive state and federal governments.
Media release: Independent inquiry into the value of teachers’ work
17 February 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has established an independent commission of inquiry into the value of teachers’ work.
Media release: Strong growth in public school enrolments
6 February 2020
Section: Media Release
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows continuing strong growth in public school enrolments and exposes the ideologically driven school funding policies of state and Federal governments.
NSW Premier’s announcement of a new selective high school is an attack on comprehensive public schooling
4 June 2019
Section: News
The NSW Teachers Federation has condemned the Premier’s decision to establish a new selective high school in southwest Sydney.
Funding for public schools must come first
7 March 2019
Section: News
The State Government should be prioritising the construction of public schools, Federation President Maurie Mulheron said today, in response to the Berejiklian Government’s promise of an extra $0.5 billion for the Catholic and independent systems.