Governing Council members, education workers, parents and community members attended a public meeting addressing the contentious funding model proposed by the State Government.
Representing DECS and speaking in favour of the model was Trevor Rogers from Maitland Area School.
Trevor argued that the DECS model is an improvement on the current Staffing Allocation Document but failed to mention that there is a total lack of industrial protection for staff and absolutely no base funding guarantee in their model.
Correna Haythorpe, President of the AEU, spoke about the realities of the proposed model. Her presentation was in stark contrast to that delivered by the DECS representative. She spoke of a model that among other things will see larger class sizes, loss of hours for School Services Officers, lack of workload protections and a reduction of leadership time.
Stay tuned for more.
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