{"id":19269,"date":"2022-11-24T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19269"},"modified":"2022-11-24T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:00:48","slug":"executive-positions-balloon-while-teacher-shortages-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/24\/executive-positions-balloon-while-teacher-shortages-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Positions Balloon While Teacher Shortages Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Documents reveal executive positions within the Education Department has ballooned from 305 in 2019 to 354 in 2022 \u2013 a 16 per cent increase in the last 3 years, at the same time as they are unable and unwilling to deal with the teacher shortage crisis and teacher pay.  
 
The number of executive directors increased from 34 to 58 in the span of three years, while there has been an additional Deputy Secretary added since 2019. The midpoint salary of an Executive Director is $324,250 while the midpoint for a Deputy secretary is $435,275.
 
The ballooning bureaucratic team contrasts with Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell and her department\u2019s teacher recruitment program. The number of teachers in schools grew just five per cent, from 66,801 to 70,279.
 
In September 2021 the NSW Government promised<\/a> under their Recruitment Beyond NSW that \u201c460 teachers will be recruited between 2022-23\u201d.
 
However as of Term Four 2022, only three teachers had successfully been recruited<\/a>.
 
As at 10 October 2022 (start of Term 4, 2022) there were 2,458.70 FTE vacant permanent teaching positions.
 
In Parliament, the Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell defended the program saying<\/a>: \u201cThe reality is that this is a good program.\u201d<\/em> 
 
In fact, Sarah Mitchell even tried to refute her own Government\u2019s data saying: \u201cFor Labor to use these to claim that there is some kind of shortage of thousands and thousands of teachers is just not true.<\/strong> The data doesn\u2019t stack up\u201d<\/em>
 
Well, as they teach you in school, the numbers don\u2019t lie.
 
Only 27 teachers<\/a> have been hired across all 2,216 public schools<\/a> under the entire Teacher Supply Strategy. We now also know that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n