Achieving excellence through early childhood education and sound system-wide staffing
3 July 2022
Section: News
Federation will seek commitments from all major political parties regarding an expanded public preschool provision, improvements to school staffing, an increase in permanent teacher allocation and a strong and effective non-school based teaching service in the run up to the state election in March 2023, delegates affirmed at Annual Conference.
Federation welcomes Opposition Leader’s commitment to build more public preschools
23 June 2022
Section: Media Release
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.
Federation welcomes NSW Government’s commitment to universal pre-kindergarten for all children
16 June 2022
Section: Media Release
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.
Steadfast support for closing the gap
1 September 2020
Section: Columns
In Australia, one person is born every one minute and 44 seconds — and based on current trends, two-thirds of those will attend public schools.
Preschool funding campaign starts week of action
19 February 2020
Section: News
Today marks the beginning of a national week of action in support of the Preschool Funding Now! campaign, as federal funding runs out at the end of the year.
Public preschool education
14 November 2018
Section: News
The provision of free public preschool education in NSW is one of the worst of any state or territory in Australia. Of all early childhood education service types available in NSW, government preschools account for only 5 per cent. Enrolment share follows a similar pattern.
Turnbull Government fails to deliver funding certainty for preschools
5 February 2018
Section: News
The Turnbull Government has again failed to commit to long-term funding for preschools after it announced it will extend funding for the sector only up to the end of 2019.