Schools grappling with COVID-induced teacher shortage

School principals are struggling to fill their classrooms as COVID-19 continues to spread amongst teachers and students.

It comes as a report in The Age showed some schools were worried they would run out of money reserved for relief teachers to cover those gaps.

Andrew Dalgleish, President of the Victorian Principals Association, told Tom Elliott so far additional funding hasn’t been provided.

“School principals understand they don’t have an unlimited budget,” he said on 3AW Drive.

“What the department has said, or advised, is they will work with schools and support them if they’re facing significant pressures as a result of an increase in that need to employ relief teachers.”

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