“That ICPA Qld lobbies the Department of Education to increase the minimum funding for a second teacher in Level 1 small schools per fortnight”.
Currently Level 1 schools (0-25 students) are entitled to department funding for a second teacher up to three days a week. To attract any teacher to the position in these remote and rural communities, many small schools are having to fund the rest of the second teacher’s full-time wage from the school’s budget which causes extreme financial strain to the school and resources and is not feasible long-term. To attract and maintain staffing in rural communities where numbers at small schools fluctuate constantly, increasing the funding to 4 days a week would make supplementing the wage for a full- time position viable. This would attract teachers to these positions and communities and ensure that students in regional areas have the same equity and access to reliable and consistent staff to ensure excellence.
