The Greens say that while 98% of public schools remain underfunded a new government advertising campaign to encourage people to pursue a teaching career will do little to reverse the mass exodus of teachers from the profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson on Education (Primary and Secondary), Senator Penny Allman-Payne said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Labor\u2019s advertising campaign encourages more people to consider teaching as a career, and to remind the community of the vital role that teachers play in society, then that\u2019s good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut what awaits these new teachers when they enter the classroom? A lack of resources and support staff, mountains of paperwork, and a workload that is impossible for many teachers to sustain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTeachers aren\u2019t leaving the profession because they\u2019re not getting enough nice TV commercials made about them \u2013 they\u2019re leaving because the conditions are appalling, and they\u2019re not able to do the jobs they love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the government wants to attract and keep teachers in the classroom it needs to make sure they have the resources and support they need to actually teach. Because right now, only 1.3% of public schools receive the bare minimum funding they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith the new National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) due next year, and Labor in power federally and in every mainland state and territory, there has never been a better time to end decades of decline and fully fund the public education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery public school in the country must be funded to 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard at the start of the next NSRA, in January 2025.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens say that while 98% of public schools remain underfunded a new government advertising campaign to encourage people to pursue a teaching career will do little to reverse the mass exodus of teachers from the profession. Greens spokesperson on Education (Primary and Secondary), Senator Penny Allman-Payne said: \u201cIf Labor\u2019s advertising campaign encourages more people … Continue reading “FANCY TV COMMERCIALS WON\u2019T FIX TEACHER SHORTAGE”<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23749","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=23749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23750,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23749\/revisions\/23750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}