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 MAITLAND

New co-located public preschools are being built at GIllieston Public School and Tenambit Public School. These public preschools will help bring down the cost for families, improve access to early education and give our kids the best start in life. 

Major upgrades are being delivered at Thornton Public School. We’re also improving Lochinvar Public School, as well as Francis Greenway, Maitland Grossmann and Maitland High School. 

MORE TEACHERS FOR OUR CHILDREN

Because of the former Liberal National Government's unfair wages cap and neglect for 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 past three years we've:

• Delivered the largest pay rise in a generation to all of NSW's public school teachers;
• Reduced teacher vacancies across the Maitland electorate by 91 per cent meaning our kids are spending more time learning in class and receiving more one-on-one attention from their teachers; and
• 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.