Minister thanks Aranui schools for their submissions

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata has thanked the five Aranui schools for their submissions on the Education Renewal Plans in greater Christchurch which have been received by the Ministry of Education. It is proposed the five schools, Aranui High School, Chisnallwood Intermediate, Wainoni Primary, Aranui Primary and Avondale Primary, form a year one to 13 school on a modern, new, single campus. Due to the complexity of their proposal the schools were given an extended time frame to prepare their submissions...

Hipkins Fails On Comprehension

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John Banks | Education

Associate Education Minister John Banks today gave Labour’s Chris Hipkins an F for comprehension due to his poor understanding of the Government’s Partnership School draft contract. “Mr Hipkins made a number of claims and got his facts wrong on every count,” Mr Banks said. Claim:  The Government is preparing to throw large sums of taxpayer cash at Partnership Schools even before legislation allowing for them has been passed into law...

Minister praises school charter completion

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata has praised the focus schools have put on submitting their charters, saying their work is greatly appreciated. "I am pleased to see so many schools submitted their charters to meet the deadline of 1 March, and I thank them for their focus on getting these important documents in,” Ms Parata says...

Document shows Govt wants to gag charter schools - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Document shows Govt wants to gag charter schools. Updated at 2:47 pm today. A draft agreement shows the Government wants to gag the charter schools it hopes to set up next year. The agreement also shows the Government will reserve the right to change ...

Flooding charter schools with taxpayer cash not on - Hipkins - Voxy

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Voxy
The National government is preparing to throw large sums of taxpayer cash at charter schools even before legislation allowing for them has been passed into law, Labour's Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. "Documents released today make it clear ...

Charter schools could siphon off needy kids' funding - Greens - Voxy

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Voxy
The National Government's charter schools experiment has hit a new low as documents reveal that funding for children with specialist education needs could be siphoned off by the school and spent however it wants, the Green Party said today. "National ...

Charter schools could siphon off needy kids' funding - Greens - Voxy

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Voxy
The National Government's charter schools experiment has hit a new low as documents reveal that funding for children with specialist education needs could be siphoned off by the school and spent however it wants, the Green Party said today. "National ...

Documents 'reveal Govt's secretive approach' to charter schools - Voxy

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Voxy
Documents released by the Government reveal just how dangerous and secretive its plan to ram through charter schools is. NZEI Te Riu Roa National Secretary Paul Goulter says it is staggering how far the Government is prepared to go in its desperate bid ...

Govt accused of stacking odds in favour of charter schools - Radio New Zealand

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URL: Govt accused of stacking odds in favour of charter schools Radio New Zealand Critics of charter schools say new documents show the Government is trying to stack the odds in favour of publicly-funded private schools. The Government intends to have charter, or partnership, schools open by the start of the next school year.

Teachers' collective meeting - Timaru Herald

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Ms Curran said the main issues for primary teachers were class sizes, charter schools, national standards and performance pay. "The feeling I get from members is one of frustration of the inability of the ministry [of education] to engage on things ...

Parata blasted over Longstone payout - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Ms Longstone's resignation came after the ministry came under fire for Christchurch school closures, the botched Novopay teacher payment system, charter schools, closing residential schools and releasing national standards data. State Services ...