BETTER SCHOOLS FOR OUR CHILDREN
BETTER SCHOOLS FOR OUR CHILDREN
Working with Premier Chris Minns, we're delivering better schools and more teachers to give our kids the world class education they deserve, right where they live.
The Minns Labor Government is building more classrooms, hiring more teachers and lifting student outcomes across NSW.
BETTER SCHOOLS ACROSS PORT STEPHENS
After 12 years of delays and denials from the former Liberal National Government, work is finally underway to build Medowie High School. Thank you to everyone in the community who fought alongside me to get construction of this much-need school underway - we could not have done this without you.
We’ve also delivered major upgrades to Hunter River and Irrawang High Schools and Shoal Bay Public School is getting a bigger and better school hall.
MORE TEACHERS FOR OUR CHILDREN
Because of the former Liberal National Government’s unfair wages cap and neglect of public education, teacher vacancies reached an all time high, resulting in 10,000 merged and cancelled classes across NSW every day.
When the Minns Labor Government was elected one of our priorities was to rebuild our education system. Just in the last two and a half years we’ve:
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Delivered the largest pay rise in a generation to all of NSW’s public school teachers;
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Reduced teacher vacancies across Port Stephens by 86 per cent locally meaning our kids are spending more time learning in class and receiving more one-on-one attention from their teachers;
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Began delivering 37 new classrooms across our community and
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Nearly halved the number of merged and cancelled classes by getting more teachers into the classroom
Rebuilding our education system takes time but we are committed to getting the job done.