The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has won a case against the department on behalf of the schools to recover the money and have vacant teaching posts filled. School governing bodies say they have been forced to either go without enough teachers or to employ additional teaching staff at their own expense. The schools have been demanding the department reimburse them for the R81 million spent to hire the extra teachers. Schools have struggled to fill vacancies since 2011 after the department claimed there was no money to pay more teachers. The court order has given the department 60 days to appoint a claims administrator to distribute the payment and employ permanent teachers. The education department had argued that it didn’t have the funds to reimburse the schools and cannot be swayed on which teachers to employ.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:52:43 +0000
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