David Seymour Got His Wish - Charter Schools Are Back. Who Is Getting the $$$ ?
OPINION
This morning I wrote that the Charter Schools Bill had passed its final reading.
Jan Tinetti called it a “sad, sad day for New Zealand education”. And Green Party MP Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan said the move is “not about education, it’s about privatisation”.
$153mn for charter schools in what teachers and principals have called “tragic” [Erica Stanford would not fund their request for high needs learning support] - while David Seymour claims the “NZ government is [now] broke” when it comes to paying for our ferries
$153m could fund 3974 learning assistants working 30 hours a week, or support for 12,812 high-needs ORS children, or 1530 learning support coordinators to deal with the inequity of access that currently existed.
I have covered this topic before so will not belabour it.
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