New South Wales (NSW) schools will be able to recruit more support staff to help reduce “an endless amount of paperwork” that teachers have to deal with every day. 
The initiative is part of an election promise by the centre-left NSW Labor government to ease the regulatory burden on teachers so that they can focus more on teaching, which will ultimately improve students’ outcomes. 
Education Minister Prue Car said on Thursday that from term 3, another 284 public schools can employ an extra 400 full-time administration staff or offer more hours to existing staff. 
This is an addition to 203 administration roles already in 128 schools….