The Queensland Government has pledged to open eight more schools in 2020 as 830 000 Queensland students returned to school this week.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said this year the government are investing more than $400 million to build eight more schools in some of the fastest growing communities across the state; the construction of which will support up to 1240 jobs.
Ms Palaszczuk reinforced her government’s promise to create an additional 3700 new teaching jobs in this term of government after the issue of a future teacher shortage was raised by the Queensland Teachers' Union on Sunday.