NSW Labor pledges $400m for education to ‘end the war on teachers’ if elected

Education Future Fund will aim to address underfunding of public schools by hiring more teachers and making intensive tutoring program permanent

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The New South Wales Labor opposition says it will establish a $400m education fund, including a new intensive literacy and numeracy tutoring program in public schools.

Labor says its Education Future Fund would set the state on course to redress the historic underfunding of public schools and to eventually meet the schooling resource standard (SRS) benchmark for education spending.

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