New property funding rules help children attending selected special programmes

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata confirmed today that schools with out-of-zone children attending selected special programmes may now be entitled to the Ministry of Education’s roll growth funding. “There are eligibility conditions that will be applied and not all special programmes will generate funding for additional classrooms,” says Ms Parata...

Government contribution to Samoan Language Week online

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Hekia Parata | Education

Talofa lava. Malo le soifua maua. Malo le lagi e mama. Education Minister Hekia Parata announced that an online directory, which lists information produced by a range of government agencies in the Samoan language, will go live today. “I am absolutely delighted that this resource – part of a broader Pacific Languages Compendium – will become available in Samoan Language Week,” says Ms Parata...

Who wants to run charter schools? - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: Who wants to run charter schools? 3News NZ The evidence about whether charter schools work is strongly disputed, and boy, have the critics lined up. In our story a few weeks ago, the experts told us they will lack oversight, leaving children exposed to corporate agendas, and designer ...

Charter schools bill passes another stage - 3News NZ

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URL: Charter schools bill passes another stage 3News NZ The bill that allows charter schools to be set up has passed another stage in parliament and is expected to become law next week. The Education Amendment Bill, fiercely fought by opposition parties, went through its committee stage today and is ...

Gordon Campbell on social experiments on education - Scoop.co.nz

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Scoop.co.nz
Charter schools are a social experiment in education into which the government is choosing to pour money, even while it cries poor about its ability to keep open the state schools it is closing and merging in Christchurch. Ironically, the charter ...

Intermediate students miss out again

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The Education Minister’s announcement regarding Christchurch school closures has now revealed what we always knew - Intermediate closures go ahead and students are used to support roll numbers at local secondary schools.