Mindful of upcoming state and federal elections, the politicians wanted to highlight Labor’s differences in educational policies.

“At the federal level Labor has committed an additional $14 billion in funding for our schools. In my electorate alone that will mean an extra $18 million for our schools,” Cunningham MP Sharon Bird said.

Whitlam MP Stephen Jones said the difference between Labor and the Liberals couldn’t be clearer.

“In my electorate the difference between Liberal and Labor is $20 million. It is additional school teachers. It is additional teacher support and it is additional resources for the classroom,” Mr Jones said.

Keira MP Ryan Park said NSW Labor will prioritise the building of new schools and conduct an immediate audit of all government land to identify priority sites for new schools in the Illawarra.

Should Labor win government in March, it will also provide free public transport for children on the Opal network until the age of 16 years or when they graduate from high school.

A Daley Labor Government will also make sure every public school will be air-conditioned to make learning more comfortable during the hot summer months.

“In less than 60 days time the people of NSW will have a very clear choice,” Mr Park said.

“On one hand they can support the current government and see in excess of $2 billion spent on two Sydney stadiums and on the other they've got a chance to put education first.

“By supporting a Daley Labor Government we will see an addition of billions of dollars going into schools and hospitals right across NSW.”

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NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes said the government had committed to spend $6 billion over the next four years to build more than 170 new and upgraded schools.

The government also plans on wiping the school maintenance backlog to zero.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Mr Stokes announced on Tuesday that they would clear every maintenance job currently outstanding at the state’s 2200 public schools.

They will invest a further $449 million to clear the backlog by July 2020, bringing the total investment to nearly $1.3 billion.

“When Labor was last in government, they closed schools, sacked teachers and racked up a huge maintenance liability as our schools fell into disrepair.

“We have worked hard to reduce the maintenance backlog and I am delighted to confirm we will now clear it completely,” Ms Berejiklian said.

But Labor pointed to the government’s own figures to reveal that the school maintenance backlog had grown by 335 per cent in the eight years that the Liberals and Nationals have been in office.

“Now, weeks from election day they’re telling people to trust them to fix the problem they created,” NSW Labor Leader Michael Daley said.