Teacher shortage hits Orange as minister visits
11 March 2021
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation members at Canobolas Rural Technology High School (CRTHS) in Orange have given Education Minister Sarah Mitchell an ultimatum over 11 unfilled teacher positions at their school.
More teacher walkouts over staffing issues
2 March 2021
Section: News
Teachers from Coomealla High School and Gol Gol Public School have today walked off the job protesting the reduction in staffing incentives and continued teacher shortages in rural and remote areas of the state.
NSW Dept of Education fails to address school staffing crisis – teachers stop work
2 March 2021
Section: Media Release
Teachers at Coomealla High School and Gol Gol Public School near Mildura and Bulahdelah Central School, walked off the job today protesting the reduction in staffing incentives and continued teacher shortages in rural and remote areas of the state.
Walgett teachers walk over staff crisis
25 February 2021
Section: News
Teachers at a school in Walgett in northern NSW have taken industrial action and walked off the job on Wednesday over drastic staff shortages.
Staffing crisis prompts teachers to walk of the job
24 February 2021
Section: Media Release
Teachers Federation members at Walgett Community College High School walked off the job this morning due to significant staffing issues.
Hopes staffing research will advance campaign for more permanent teachers
27 October 2020
Section: News
Federation has commissioned an independent research project into the staffing of the NSW public school system, as a means to achieve improved staffing arrangements for the benefit of teaching and learning.
Staffing campaign: what your school can get
1 September 2020
Section: News
Phone calls to parents or checking on a student’s head space, planning a lesson or reflecting on how it went, marking or contacting other professionals about a child’s welfare, speaking with colleagues to meet students’ needs or catching up on professional learning.
Staffing win helping to support students with disability during COVID-19
20 May 2020
Section: Columns
The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard our classes and teachers of students with disability. Responsive staff, additional staffing and the loud call for a targeted response to unique site and student needs relieved what threatened to be a disastrous outcome.
Staffing Agreement signals union win
24 April 2020
Section: News
While Federation has pursued the health and safety, industrial, employment and professional rights of teachers during this pandemic, the union has also secured a new 2020/21 Staffing Agreement that will commence day one, term 2.
Call for additional release time for all teachers
2 March 2020
Section: News
In line with a determination by members, Federation is demanding at least two additional hours of release from face-to-face teaching per week for all school teachers.
Federation negotiations secure extra staff for SSPs
21 February 2020
Section: News
A Federation campaign has helped secure $37 million funding for extra staff across all Schools for Specific Purposes (SSPs) during 2020.
Federation breaks staffing cap and secures additional EALD positions
Federation is proud to report that the arbitrary staffing cap, initially set in 1983, has been broken.
Release time high on agenda
16 November 2019
Section: News
Federation is pursuing the employment of additional permanent classroom, executive, specialist and non-school based teaching positions
Podcast interview raises key issues
25 September 2019
Section: News
Federation President Maurie Mulheron used the platform of Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott’s Every Student podcast to express the need for improvements in the areas of staffing and system-wide support for the work of teachers.
Statewide solution to inequity involves raising the school staffing entitlement
28 August 2019
Section: News
System failures are denying the necessary resources and staffing that schools need to realise the potential of rural students, says Federation Acting Deputy President Henry Rajendra.
Additional permanent teachers will boost quality teaching and learning
8 July 2019
Section: News
Increasing the number of permanent teaching positions in the state’s public schools was the surest way to provide adequate classroom relief for teachers, address the high number of temporary teachers in the system and address the increasingly complex nature of student needs, Federation’s Annual Conference was told today.
Time to bolster permanent roles
14 June 2019
Section: News
Staffing every public school throughout NSW with appropriately qualified and accredited permanent teachers remains one of the greatest challenges facing the NSW public school system.
Significant lump sum hits bank accounts of rural and remote teachers
6 May 2019
Section: News
During the holidays members of rural and remote schools received their first payments under the new Rural and Remote Incentive packages, negotiated by the union.
2019 campaign priorities
4 March 2019
Section: News
The campaign priorities outlined here are by no means an exhaustive list nor are they necessarily in any particular order. Rather, these are the major issues, determined by members at Federation’s democratic decision-making forums, that we will continue to campaign for in the forthcoming elections, and beyond.
State parties signal breakthrough staffing reform
26 February 2019
Section: News
The protection and enhancement of a statewide staffing system that distributes qualified, permanent teachers to every public school community across NSW, remains the most responsible use of additional needs-based funding in our public schools.
Schools bordering drought-affected areas can apply for staffing maintenance
17 November 2018
Section: News
Communities affected by drought will have staffing levels at their schools maintained, in a significant success for Federation members.