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School lunches essential but reinvest any savings into education
Aotearoa's largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says the Government's decision to continue to fund Ka Ora, Ka Ao Healthy School Lunches programme is commonsense in ensuring…
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Mini budget a false economy
The government continuing to focus on tax reduction at the expense of working families and children in need is a false economy which will have long term poor outcomes for the same…
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Repealing Fair Pay Agreements undermines early childhood education
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Early childhood education teachers take action urging government to prioritise tamariki
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Union fights back against threat to remove Māori language teaching allowances
Teachers will resist the new Government’s threat to remove remove allowances that recognise teachers with skills and specialist knowledge of te reo and Māori tikanga, their union…
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PISA results show urgent need for increased support for tamariki
The latest PISA results show that the incoming Government should continue the school lunch programme and provide more learning support for students and young people rather than…
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Early childhood education teachers take action urging government to prioritise tamariki
Kaiako and kaimahi working in early childhood education (ECE) are holding a national day of action to call on the new government to put tamariki first by prioritising improvements…
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Fund full pay parity for ECE educators before paying landlords
A policy decision in the recently released National-ACT coalition agreement documents means landlords will receive a large Christmas bonus that no one voted for – at the expense…
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Children need a government that cares about early learning, not removing rights and safeguards of quality
The government should be focusing on better early childhood education funding, not regulation, if it wants the quality and safety of early learning for tamariki to be improved,…