❓ A parliamentary question regarding the WA government's pay offer to teachers and alternative proposals, with the Minister highlighting the benefits of the government's offer and criticizing a performance-based pay model proposed by the opposition.
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TEACHERS - GOVERNMENT PAY OFFER 660. Mr M.P. WHITELY to the Minister for Education and Training: (1) Could the minister update the house on the progress of the state government’s multimillion-dollar pay offer to Western Australian teachers? (2) Could the minister advise of alternate proposals? Mr M. McGOWAN
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I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
TEACHERS - GOVERNMENT PAY OFFER
(1) Could the minister update the house on the progress of the state government’s multimillion-dollar pay offer to Western Australian teachers? (2) Could the minister advise of alternate proposals? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
(2) Could the minister advise of alternate proposals? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
(1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
(2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
TEACHERS - GOVERNMENT PAY OFFER
(1) Could the minister update the house on the progress of the state government’s multimillion-dollar pay offer to Western Australian teachers? (2) Could the minister advise of alternate proposals? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
(2) Could the minister advise of alternate proposals? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
I thank the member for the question. (1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
(1) We value our teaching workforce and that is the reason that last week we were able to put to teachers the offer of a $630 million pay deal. This offer is about appropriately valuing our teaching workforce and rewarding teachers for remaining in the classroom and, hopefully, keeping them for the long term. Some of the details of this pay deal include some massively increased allowances for teachers who work in remote and country schools, the expanded number of schools that will be part of that scheme and also increased allowances to teachers who work in difficult-to-staff metropolitan schools. On top of that, some of our most outstanding classroom teachers will be paid more than $100 000 per annum by the end of this agreement. Our most senior classroom teachers will be the best paid in the country and our graduates will be the best paid in the country. Overall, it is a very good offer to the teaching workforce to reflect teachers’ work and the important role they play in Western Australia. (2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
(2) I am aware of alternative proposals for how teachers in this state should be paid and I refer to Julie Bishop’s proposals. The reason these proposals are relevant is that she and the Prime Minister have said that if they are re-elected to government, as part of the next funding deal they will require the state to implement her new performance-based pay model. The details of her performance-based pay model include that the students and the parents be asked what a teacher should be paid. A judgement of the performance of the students at the start of the year versus their performance at the end of the year must be made and the teacher would be paid according to that judgement. That is just a recipe for those teachers who work in the most affluent schools to get more money and for those teachers who work in the difficult country and metropolitan schools to get less money. That is exactly what it is. The teaching workforce in Western Australia needs to understand that if Mr Howard is re-elected as Prime Minister of this country in two weeks’ time, teachers will have a system of pay enforced upon them that is strange, bizarre and whacky and it will throw the Western Australian school system into turmoil. It will also mean that those people who do the most difficult jobs will get the least pay.
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