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Jack Gramenz and Sophia McCaughan

'Desperate' cash splash for teachers in needy schools

Schoolhouses were placed near NSW parliament in a campaign to highlight underfunding in schools. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Teachers will be paid nearly $30,000 to move to understaffed classrooms as NSW desperately tries to fill long-standing vacancies amid calls for more public-school funding.

More than 2000 miniature schoolhouses were placed not far from the state parliament on Thursday as part of a national push for the Commonwealth to provide more money for underfunded schools.

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