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NSW government fails to address lack of funding and support for public schools

Today’s announcement by the Berejiklian Government to replace the discredited ‘Local Schools Local Decisions’ (LSLD) policy with ‘The School Success Model’ is more about spin than substance. It is yet another attempt to blame teachers and principals for system failures and the lack of adequate funding and support in our public schools.

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Media release: Teaching jobs at risk under Berejiklian plan, class sizes to increase

Classroom teachers, executive, specialist and principal positions are at risk due to the Berejiklian Government’s decision to push ahead with public school closures in the Murwillumbah community.

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Media release: Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry

The NSW Teachers Federation will make the case for change in the salaries and working conditions of teachers and principals on the first day of hearings of an independent inquiry in Sydney today.

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Media release: Teachers welcome extra catch-up programs for public school students

The NSW Teachers Federation welcomes the decision by the Berejiklian Government to fund a program of additional school-based support for students who have fallen behind in their studies because of the impact of Covid-19.

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Teachers Oppose Murwillumbah School Closures

Following decades of school building maintenance neglect, the NSW Teachers Federation believes the State Government is now inflicting punishment on children and their families in the Murwillumbah community by its decision to amalgamate local schools.

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Parents, teachers and principals oppose new behaviour strategy

Parents, teachers and principals have come together to voice their strong objection to the Department of Education’s mishandling of changes to the suspension and expulsion policy.

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Parents, teachers and principals oppose new behaviour strategy

​Parents, teachers and principals have come together to voice their strong objection to the Department of Education’s mishandling of changes to the suspension and expulsion policy.

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Students at risk due to a lack of school counsellors

​New research highlights the urgent need for more school counsellors in NSW with 98 per cent of teachers and 99 per cent of principals saying the number of students with mental health issues has increased in the last three years.

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Urgent need for more school counsellors

​Enough is enough. A school counsellor to student ratio of 1:500 is well overdue.

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A 10-15% increase in teacher salaries needed to ‘restore relativities’

As reported in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, research conducted by Professor John Buchanan from the University of Sydney Business School has found an alarming decline in teachers’ salaries when compared to other professional groups.

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Media release: Students with disability to increase by 50% within a decade

A confidential NSW Department of Education disability strategy obtained under FOI laws has revealed inadequacies in planning for the state’s students with disabilities.

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Media release: Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry

Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry will begin public hearings on Monday 31 August in Sydney and continue until Thursday 10 September.

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Media release: A cruel blow for students as Govt threatens school funding

The Berejiklian Government must not be allowed to use students as pawns in its attempt to impose a wage freeze across the public sector.

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Media release: New curriculum requires additional resources

The NSW Teachers Federation has welcomed the unhurried approach and commitment to working with teachers in the development and implementation of the new curriculum.

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Media release: Strong growth in public school enrolments

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.

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Media release: Treasurer’s pay cut ‘deal’ is unacceptable

Teachers will not accept the Treasurer’s latest attempt to impose a pay cut on the profession.

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Media release: Teachers reject pay cut

In the week of the full resumption of NSW public schools, teachers and principals have been rewarded with a slap in the face.

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Media release: Normal school operations must end to put the health and safety of students and staff first

The NSW Teachers Federation Executive met this morning and unanimously endorsed the following:

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Media release: Teachers and principals are not dispensable

The NSW Teachers Federation Executive met today and unanimously endorsed the following:

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Media release: Coronavirus advice conflicting, contradictory and impossible

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.

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Media release: Government-fuelled largesse – it’s obscene

Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos says revelations of the “billion dollar private school building boom” further expose defenceless funding priorities of state and federal governments.

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