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NSW Education Minister Prue Car refuses to sign a new funding deal with the federal government.

Double or nothing: Why NSW rejected billions for public school children

The funding stand-off comes as total number of permanent and temporary teachers has gone backwards in NSW.

  • Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll

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Year 1 students at Oatley West Public School in a literacy class.

‘We need to keep improving’: Almost half of year 1 students not reading at expected level

The NSW phonics check shows 45 percent of students are falling below par, with a vast gap between advantaged students and their disadvantaged peers.

  • Lucy Carroll
Jenny Allum, head of school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst, said the policy essentially capped the number of excellent teachers that could be in the state sector.

Top Sydney principal criticises ‘odd’ teacher salary plan

The SCEGGS Darlinghurst principal criticised plans to reward 10 per cent of state school teachers with a $150,000 salary, revealing her own staff’s pay.

  • Mary Ward
Top-performing NSW public school teachers will receive salaries of up to $152,000 under a Coalition election pledge.

‘We have a retention crisis’: $40,000 pay rises pledged for top NSW teachers

Six hundred public school teachers would earn salaries of up to $152,000 under a Coalition election promise to stop the best educators leaving the classroom.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
Michelle Tamaro and her daughter Aria who will start kindergarten at St Patrick’s in North Parramatta on Tuesday.

The changes coming to the new primary school curriculum this week

Almost 65,000 kindergarten students will start at NSW public schools this week, learning a new curriculum that focuses on phonics to learn to read.

  • Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
Aspiring teachers in NSW will be able to enter the classroom after a one-year postgraduate course in a major overhaul to teacher training.

Teachers fast tracked into classrooms with promise to scrap two-year qualification

More than 9000 aspiring teachers have been deterred from entering the profession because of the requirement to undertake a two-year master’s teaching degree, a NSW Productivity Commission report says.

  • Lucy Carroll
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Jessica Roze-Polura is already looking for high school options for her son Joshua, 3.

‘An issue of choice’: New eastern suburbs high school under consideration

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said the government will consult parents, students and local communities about a new public high school in eastern Sydney.

  • Lucy Carroll
Teachers are among the in-demand professions to have the skilled visa requirement lowered.

Pay of almost $150,000 for ‘expert teachers’ in reform proposal

A survey of 1350 public school teachers found more than two-thirds would be interested in taking on one of the proposed roles.

  • Lucy Carroll
Artist’s impressions from the Macquarie Park high school development

New Sydney public schools to share space with shops, apartments under radical proposal

A plan for an education campus at Macquarie Park, with a capacity of up to 3000 students, could include shops and high-rise apartments on the same site.

  • Lucy Carroll
Damien Costas, publisher of Australian Penthouse, who underwrote both the Nigel Farage and Milo Yiannopoulos tours of Australia.

Nigel Farage in Australia thanks to Sydney porn king

Mr Brexit is back. And he’s promising plenty of entertainment.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell

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