{"id":18660,"date":"2022-10-17T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=18660"},"modified":"2022-10-17T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T00:10:18","slug":"10000-permanent-teachers-in-nsw-under-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/10\/17\/10000-permanent-teachers-in-nsw-under-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Permanent Teachers in NSW Under Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Minns Labor Government will create 10,000 more permanent teaching roles in NSW by shifting temporary positions into permanent roles in a bid to stem teacher attrition rates.
 
This will give teachers the job security they need to stay in the profession; give schools the flexibility they need to deliver lessons; and give parents the confidence that their children will be taught by a teacher and not spend time in a merged classroom.
 
Under Labor\u2019s plan, current resources that are going to temporary positions can be used to give teachers permanent places in the education system, and schools will have the ability to bring in the teachers they need based on their requirements.
 
This policy will ensure more teachers are readily available to fill gaps, helping to prevent the increasing teacher shortages schools are facing after 12 years of the NSW Liberals.
 
Temporary and casual teaching roles rise under Liberals<\/strong>
 
Since 2011 the NSW Liberal-National Government has moved to casualise the teaching profession.

Through policies such as Local Schools, Local Decisions, the Liberals and Nationals shifted responsibility of running the education system away to individual schools, leaving thousands of teachers without knowing whether they\u2019d have a job next term, next year or even next week.
 
As a result the prevalence of temporary teaching roles has ballooned over the last decade.
 
In 2011, there were 11,695 full-time equivalent (FTE) temporary teaching positions in New South Wales.
 
But under the NSW Liberals, FTE temporary roles surged to 21,366 by 2021 \u2013 an 82 per cent increase.
 
Temporary or casual roles represent more than one in three of all teaching positions in the state \u2013 or 37 per cent.
 
Job insecurity cause of teacher attrition<\/strong>
 
Job insecurity is cited by more than a half of teachers \u2013 or 58 per cent \u2013 as a contributor to workforce problems, according to a NSW Parliament survey of teachers.
 
For young teachers without a permanent position, it makes it much more difficult to get finance for a home or a car \u2013 to lay down roots and to start a family.
 
60 per cent of teachers were also considering leaving the profession within the next 5 years, the survey also found.
 
In fact, just last year one in nine young teachers left the profession.
 
Declining education outcomes under the Liberals and Nationals<\/strong>
 
Between 2006 and 2018, NSW students have dropped from 6th to 23rd in reading, dropped from 9th to 31st in maths and dropped from 3rd to 23rd in science.
 
Chris Minns, NSW Labor Leader said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labor\u2019s plan to bring permanency back to the NSW teaching workforce will help bring an end to the Liberals\u2019 and Nationals\u2019 teacher shortage.
 
\u201cThe parents and students of NSW deserve a government that will take decisive action to stop merged classes and turn around declining education outcomes.\u201d
 
\u201cWe can\u2019t have a situation where teachers are leaving our schools because they don\u2019t know whether they will have a job next term, or next year. Teaching should be a job you want to stay in for your entire career.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Prue Car, NSW Shadow Minister for Education said:<\/strong>
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\u201cThe Liberals and Nationals have overseen the casualisation of the teaching profession on an industrial scale.
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\u201cThis disastrous policy has led to a decline in education outcomes, student wellbeing and talented individuals leaving the profession in their thousands.
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\u201cLabor\u2019s plan to boost permanent teaching roles will give teachers the confidence to remain in the profession and focus on delivering the best education for our children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Minns Labor Government will create 10,000 more permanent teaching roles in NSW by shifting temporary positions into permanent roles in a bid to stem teacher attrition rates. This will give teachers the job security they need to stay in the profession; give schools the flexibility they need to deliver lessons; and give parents the confidence … Continue reading “10,000 Permanent Teachers in NSW Under Labor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18661,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18660\/revisions\/18661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}