Education Amendment Bill to lift achievement

Our Education Amendment Bill will help provide more clarity for schools and boards of trustees, and ensure children’s needs remain the central focus for our educators.

National’s unrelenting focus is on raising achievement for all our students. Four out of five kids are achieving successfully at school, our plan is for five out of five. To get five out of five we really need to target those kids who have been historically under-served by the system, and we see Partnership Schools/Kura Hourua as a way of doing that. The bill provides the legal framework for these schools.

We already have a number of different types of schools operating in New Zealand, state, integrated, private, kura, faith-based, single sex. Partnership Schools will be another option for parents and students, giving them more freedom to choose the type of education that best suits their child’s needs.

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