NSW Labor pledges 5000 extra teachers for public schools to be hired during Michael Daley's first term | LisaVisentin
NSW Labor leader Michael Daley has pledged to hire 5,000 extra teachers for the state's public schools while taking aim at the Liberals' claim that NSW could "have it all" saying it is a "misleading myth".
Mr Daley said the extra teachers would be hired during his first term as premier, and would be part of the $2.7 billion Gonski funding package,Labor's back-to-back education announcements are part of a strategy to ramp up its prosecution of its key election platform of "schools and hospitals before Sydney stadiums" as the election campaign enters its final two weeks.
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