Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 93 No. 06 (25 Jun 2012)
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EDUCATION Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1
24-hour stopwork June 27 Teachers in schools and at OCAA worksites will stop work on Wednesday unless the Government acts. 1
Put students first The Statd'Government's focus is clearly on cutting resources from public education. 1 , 4
EDUCATION 2
Executive 2
Officers 2
Contents 2
Advertising 2
Thousands rally for workers compensation rights 3
Have you enrolled to vote? 3
Our Fed Reps 3
Broadcast venues 4
Advertising 4
Job cuts to damage student learning The loss of at least 200 positions in state office will impact on schools. 5
Multicultural education comes under threat Resources are already being cut from public multicultural education programs and services ahead of Local Schools, Local Decisions. 5 , 8
Casino teachers take beef to the community 5
Association confronts local member on devolution policy 5 , 12
What’s 6
I give a Gonski 6
How to give a Gonski 6
Advertising 7
Hold Piccoli to election pledge 8
Central Schools Conference statement about Local Schools, Local Decisions 8
Funding changes leave students behind Schools are faced with adjusting to the Every Student, Every School changes when Department staff-cuts are diminishing support. 8
Budget focuses on expense management The State Budget demands spending cuts but does not reveal the details of how they will be made. 9
Budget sees TAFE cut again 9
Advertising 9
Pyne backs current funding model Funding of private schools would be maintained under a Coalition Government. 10
Child protection bill rushed into Parliament Proposed changes to requirements around working with children seek to make employees pay fees for regular clearances. 10
Libraries are important Devolution threatens the numbers of qualified teacher-librarians. 10
Win-win for justice and bottom line Removing unjustness in the bail laws would reduce the remand population and could save the NSW Government money. 11
Hiroshima Day is still important 11
Advertising 11
Preschools gain extra payment Funds are designed to help preschools develop Quality Improvement Plans 12
Casualisation puts lives on hold The effects of insecure work on the individual and the community are significant and wide-ranging. 12
Hiccup for chaplains in schools program 12
OECD links lower levels of socio-economic stratification to better PISA results A recent OECD report has suggested that private schools represent an exit option from the public system for more advantaged families and exacerbate socio-economic stratification. 13
Advertising 13
Indigenous writers encouraged 14
RMTA raises $2lOO for Stewart House 14
Advertising 14
North-west hosts beginning teachers 15
Honduran teachers still suffering 15
Barry's betrayal over hunting The NSW Government has betrayed voters by allowing hunting in national parks. 15
Advertising 15
Strong support at meetings Negative outcomes from trials in WA and NSW help make the case against devolution, as Federation’s advertising hits TV and radio. 16
letters Strike lessons 16 , 17
YES MINISTER 17
Postcard to the Editor 17
Equity cuts 17
Divided we fall 17 , 18
Stolen futures 18
More than, less than 18
Interesting paradox 18
Free trade doom 18 , 19
Carbon copy 19
Advertising 17 , 18 , 19 , 20
features 21
Remand has human and financial cost Since 1994 the total remand population in NSW has increased 254 per cent. 21
Bail Reform Alliance demande 21
Inside 21
Paper Plane 22
Scotland's curriculum change provides lessons Scotland brought in a new curriculum in 2010, however, schools and teachers are still struggling to come to grips with the ambitious shift. 22 , 26
UK austerity measures highlight unions' challenge The current global economic gloom provides the union movement with the opportunity to develop new ideas and a stronger voice. 23 , 26
Professor Ewing's message to Australlan trade unions 23
Class of'58... you are requesred to commence duty. 23
In brief 23
Advertising 24
Retired Teachers Association 25
Social mem § 25
In the library 25
Create a Gay-Straight Alliance 26
Stop runaway global warming 26
your say 27
Devolution is smoke and mirrors Turning our principals into CEOs is not the progressive educational reform that it pretends to he. 27
Inside 27
Save sustainability education in NSW Head office cuts to cut teachers off from sustainability curriculum support. 28
Advertising 28
Federation must campaign for same sex marriage A production of the play 8 has served as a timely reminder of the importance of campaigning for same sex marriage. 28
reviews 29
Film 29 , 30
Inside 29
Computer Corner 30
In brief 30
Advertising 30
Theatre 31 , 32
Book Cocaine, Death Squads and the War on Ttenor: US Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia COCAINE DEATH SQUADS AND THE WAR ON TEŔOR U.S IMPERIALISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE NI COLOMBA 31
Book Come The Revolution: A Memoir 32
Corkscrew 32
administration 33
Federation Administrative Officers 2013-2015 33
Officers' job descriptions 33 , 34
Inside 33
Advertising 34
New principals courses 35
Deputy principals, head teachers and assistant principals courses 35 , 36 , 37
Duties common to all Administrative Officers 37
Advertising 37 , 38 , 39
DT SMITH 39
Snapped in and out of class 40

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EDUCATION  

Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation  

Agreement No. PP255003 00104  

What Max has to say about hail  

21  

Plus  

Hiroshima Day 11  

Preschools 12  

TUT for principals 35  

June 25, 2012 Vol 93 No  

24-hour stopwork June 27  

Teachers in schools and at OCAA worksites will stop work on  

Wednesday unless the Government acts.  

Dennis Long  

Editor  

Executive has authorised industri-  

al action if the NSW Government  

fails to provide the guarantees  

contained in the "Putting Students  

First Charter".  

The guarantees in the Charter  

are to protect students, teachers,  

principals and schools from Local  

Schools, Local Decisions.  

The Senior Officers are continu-  

ing to seek negotiations to secure  

the guarantees as means of re-  

solving the dispute.  

General Secretary Jenny Dia-  

mond wrote to Education Minister  

Adrian Piccoli on June 19.  

"The Teachers Federation would  

like to see an end to the current un-  

certainty that besets our schools as  

consequence of mooted changes  

to education policy and would like  

to work with you to construct har-  

monious resolution of the issues,"  

she wrote.  

The letter proposed "charter of  

commitments" for the Government  

to enter into based on eight key  

points. Federation believes that “an  

agreement could be arrived at that  

guarantees certainty and quality in  

education" for the 750,000 student  

in NSW public schools.  

The escalation of the campaign  

is consistent with the resolution  

overwhelmingly endorsed by  

members at stopwork meetings on  

May 18 that called for intensified  

action in the last week of term 2.  

Members will rally in Sydney at  

the Town Hall at 11am.  

Rallies are organised for fur-  

ther 34 regional centres.  

state-wide advertising cam-  

paign in support of the Putting  

Students First Charter has com-  

menced in regional and metro-  

politan newspapers. Full page  

ads appeared in the Sydney Morn-  

ing Herald and the Daily Telegraph  

on June 20. Half page ads were  

booked for the Armidale Express,  

Bathurst's Western Advocate, Bay  

Post, Blacktown Sun, Byron Bay’s  

Echo, Central Coast Express Advo-  

cate, Coffs Coast Independent, De-  

niliquin Pastoral Times, Dubbo’s  

Daily Liberal, The Area News in  

Griffith, Newcastle Herald, Ula-  

warm Mercury, The Star in New-  

castle and Lake Macquarie, North-  

ern Rivers Echo, Northern Star,  

Orange's Central Western Daily,  

Penrith City Star, Queanbeyan Age,  

Southern Highlands News, Tam-  

worth's Northern Daily Leader,  

Tweed Border Mail, the Riverina’s  

Daily Advertiser and the Campbell-  

town Macarthur Advertiser  

The newspaper advertising with  

the Charter are in addition to the  

television, print and radio ads alert-  

ing the community about the many  

dangers of Local Schools, Local De-  

cisions with strip ads in the Sun-  

Herald on June 3, 10 and 24 and  

July 1; radio ads from June 4-16  

and June 24-30; and television ads  

from June 13-July 6.  

Put students first  

The Statd'Government's focus is clearly on  

cutting resources from public education.  

Maurie Mulheron  

President  

The campaign to secure guaran-  

tees from the State Government for  

the public school system and our  

students' learning opportunities is  

intensifying with the Federation  

developing the Putting Students  

First Charter.  

The Charter is underpinned by  

fundamental value the profession  

holds dear: that the learning needs  

of students must be central to any  

educational change. The Char-  

ter seeks to secure guarantees on  

class sizes, access for students to  

specialist teachers, and the main-  

tenance of no less than existing  

levels of permanent classroom and  

executive teacher positions. Local  

Schools, Local Decisions threatens  

all of this, and more.  

If there were ever any doubts as  

to the true intentions of the Govern-  

ment under Local Schools, Local De-  

cisions, two recent events should  

dispel them. It is clear that, rather  

than putting students first, the Gov-  

ernment intends to reduce its in-  

vestment in public education by cut-  

ting programs and by reducing the  

number of permanent positions.  

Firstly, on May 30, the Depart-  

ment of Education and Communi-  

ties without warning, without  

consultation, and in the absence  

of even the pretence of negotia-  

tion announced, as part of Local  

Schools, Local Decisions, radi-  

cal restructuring of the Depart-  

ment. It amounts to easily the most  

severe and significant loss of posi-  

tions from head office in the histo-  

ry of public education. The cuts are  

deep and go to almost every aspect  

of support for schools and their  

students.  

It must be noted that, like all as-  

pects of Local Schools, Local Deci-  

sions, the Department is attempt-  

ing to keep hidden any information  

on which directorates, which po-  

sitions and which programs have  

been cut. The total number of posi-  

tions lost is around 200, comprising  

125 teachers and 75 public servant  

positions.  

The areas hit include the loss  

of the curriculum directorate, the  

abolition of all positions currently  

supporting new scheme teachers,  

the abandonment of the regional  

new arrivals ESL program, the clo-  

sure of the Drug Prevention Unit,  

the loss of professional learning  

support as well as range of other  

critical programs in student wel-  

fare, the Arts Unit and library ser-  

vices. The Equity Programs direc-  

torate, which coordinated funding  

and support for low SES schools,  

has been abolished.  

How deep are the cuts? The De-  

partment now has just one position  

looking after K-6 English for the  

whole state, and just one position  

for 7-12 English: two positions for  

English to support 770,000 students  

in over 2200 schools, with nation-  

al curriculum on its way.  

The second event that confirms  

the NSW Government is intent  

on savaging the funding of public  

education at the state level is the  

June 12 State Budget. On top of the  

5000 public servant positions that  

last year's budget announced, the  

Treasurer announced further  

10,000 positions are to go.  

The Department of Educa-  

tion and Communities now has to  

reduce its workforce even further,  

and among those hardest hit will be  

support staff in state, regional offic-  

es and, eventually, schools. Among  

the 15,000 that will be targeted,  

will be thousands of DEC posi-  

tions that currently exist to support  

principals, staff and students. But  

the work will not disappear, it will  

merely be pushed down to schools.  

labour expense cap of 1.2  

per cent has also been intro-  

duced across the whole of govern-  

ment and directors-general of all  

»  

Federation Administrative  

Officers 2013-2015  

Election notice page 33  

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