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Schools

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  Principals and teachers strike over shortages

  June 30, 2022

  Principals and teachers from government and Catholic schools in NSW are striking today over the worsening teacher shortages which are affecting the education of children across the state.

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  HSC students stuck in classes of over 50 students due to the teacher shortages

  June 26, 2022

  Teachers and principals have reported mass disruptions to student learning in NSW public schools due to worsening teacher shortages.

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  Federation welcomes Opposition Leader’s commitment to build more public preschools

  June 23, 2022

  The NSW Teachers Federation has today welcomed Opposition Leader Chris Minns’s announcement that a Labor State Government will provide a preschool for every new public primary school as well as building 100 extra public preschools in its first term.

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  When you fail teachers, you fail children

  June 22, 2022

  We are in serious danger of burning out a generation of teachers, lost through overwork and disenchantment with the way their focus is constantly taken from their students to a mind-numbing amount of administration and compliance work. They also see a government in denial, unwilling to stand up for the profession or address the root causes of the shortages: the uncompetitive salaries and crippling workloads that are turning people away from teaching.

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  Public and Catholic school teachers to strike on 30 June

  June 21, 2022

  The decision to take 24-hour joint strike action on 30 June was made after a historic joint meeting between the executives of the NSW Teachers Federation and the Independent Education Union of Australia (NSW/ACT).

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  Federation welcomes NSW Government’s commitment to universal pre-kindergarten for all children

  June 16, 2022

  The NSW Teachers Federation has today welcomed the Government's announcement to invest more than $5.8 billion over 10 years to introduce universal pre-kindergarten for all children in NSW by 2030.

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  NSW Government given a week to act on teacher shortage crisis

  June 14, 2022

  An extraordinary meeting of the NSW Teachers Federation Executive has today called on the NSW Government to immediately revise its wages policy and to urgently negotiate an outcome that will put an end to the teacher shortage crisis facing NSW schools.

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  Greens and Labor oppose Government's Inclusive, Engaging and Respectful Schools policy

  June 07, 2022

  Federation has welcomed formal written support from the Greens and NSW Labor to oppose the Perrottet Government’s controversial Inclusive, Engaging and Respectful Schools policy.