Thirty-eight state schools in the North will not open until between 10.30am and 11.30am on Wednesday after the state's education union decided to proceed with stop-work action.
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The resolution was reached at a meeting of the state's Australian Education Union executive on Monday afternoon.
AEU state president Helen Richardson said the government's updated offer for teachers only had a 0.25 per cent pay increase on the last one and there were no new solutions to ease teacher workloads.
“Teachers are extremely frustrated that the government has sought to distract from education issues and is instead fixated on playing politics at every turn and lecturing teachers, support staff and principals about values and how to run their own union,” she said.
“Teachers are not willing to lock-in three years of under-funding and under-resourcing for our kids."
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Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff said the union was not acting in good faith in not conducting a "full, properly conducted ballot" of teachers on the government's latest offer.
"For the union to direct members to strike without even taking the offer to teachers and staff is unacceptable and unfair to parents and students," he said.
"Our new offer includes a 7 per cent pay rise over three years and new specialist teachers on top of our previous commitment for 250 more teachers and 80 additional teacher assistants.
"We call on them now to do the right thing by their members, allow them an opportunity to genuinely consider the government's offer and to cancel disruptive industrial action in the meantime."
Mr Rockliff said the AEU's meeting late on Monday meant it would be too late for parents in the North-West who had made alternative arrangements for their children in the afternoon regardless of the union's course of action.
Stop-work meetings were scheduled in the region on Tuesday afternoon.
