The AEU Federal Executive has placed a nation-wide ban on the implementation of the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement, specifically initiatives which are unfunded and that will increase the workload of the overstretched and under-resourced teaching profession.
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AEU Federal Executive states that the ban will remain in place until it determines that there is a genuine pathway for all public schools to achieve the minimum 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard.
“After more than a decade of inequality and endless promises by governments, we cannot stand by while another generation of students miss out on the resources that they need for their education. And we cannot accept a reform agenda that will be rolled out from next year while the status of funding for NSW, VIC, QLD, SA and the ACT remains unclear and increasingly looks as if it will be status quo,” said Federal President Correnna Haythorpe. “The situation is untenable. In public schools today, we have chronic funding shortfalls, workforce shortages, increased workloads and students who need extra learning support. The failure to fund our schools properly impacts deeply on the teaching and learning conditions for teachers, education support staff and for students.”
The ongoing negotiations between the Commonwealth and State and Territory governments have failed to deliver a full pathway to 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard (“SRS”) due to the Government’s offer failing to provide a full 25% Commonwealth share of the SRS and failing to deliver on the removal of the 4% depreciation tax from the State and Territory SRS share.
The implementation of any government reform agenda without the essential funding that is required to meet the needs of the public school system, places an increased workload burden on the teaching profession, while at the same time denying schools the resources needed to achieve high quality teaching and learning outcomes for their students.
Read more - AEU : AEU PLACES IMMEDIATE BAN ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL REFORM AGREEMENT (aeufederal.org.au)