Election 2023 - Education Policy
Act
Spokesperson:
Chris Baillie
Link to
policy here
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Chris Baillie
- ACT will establish a $250 million a year Teaching Excellence Reward Fund to reward excellence in the classroom, encourage professional development, and deliver better educational outcomes.
- Provide every child with a Student Education Account.
- Increase choice in our education system by allowing any state school to apply to become a Partnership School.
- Reduce the number of back office bureaucrats at the Ministry of Education by 50 per cent, saving $240 million a year. We will put this money back into frontline education.
- Create a traffic light system that sets out and requires actions to be taken over persistent truancy.
- Empower schools to deal with truancy through direct funding for truancy officers.
- Use information on school attendance and educational progress to prioritise ERO school inspections.
- Ensure ERO’s school evaluation reports are consistent and based on clear, objective, and relevant criteria.
- Improve the Ministry of Education’s slow and ineffective approach to managing under-performance by enforcing a clear and structured intervention process for identifying and intervening in under-performing schools.
- Read more here and here
Green Party
Spokesperson:
Chlöe Swarbrick
Link to
policy here
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Chlöe Swarbrick
- Trial alternative models of school governance that improve inclusivity and self-determination in education.
- Provide advice and support on implementing the breath of the National Curriculum in local contexts.
- Resource the universal teaching of Te Reo Maori and Tikanga Maori in all public schools.
- End classroom streaming or grouping by perceived ability, recognising this exacerbates inequality and is not supported by evidence for improved learning outcomes.
- Ensure that all school services have policies, practices, resources, and programmes to create an inclusive whole school culture that supports the elimination of discrimination, bullying and violence.
- Establish a unit within the Ministry of Education designed to support schools, and the education system to listen and respond to children's voices.
- The Green Party will expand Ka Ora, Ka Ako to all schools with an equity index of over 450 from the start of the 2024 school year, as well as guaranteeing that the current programme will continue.
- Around a million lunches are provided each week.
- Read more here
National
Spokesperson:
Erica Stanford
Link to
policy here
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Erica Stanford
- An hour each day should be dedicated to reading, writing and maths.
- Ensure regular standardised assessment and clear reporting to parents.
- Ensure there is better training and more tools to support teachers.
- Introduce an exit exam for primary and intermediate teaching graduates to demonstrate expertise in reading, writing, maths and science instruction, and require existing teachers to undertake professional development in teaching the basics.
- National will ban cell phone use at school to help lift achievement and support every child to make the most out of their education.
- Provide structured literacy intervention for learners who need extra support.
- Ensure teachers get training on how to use the structured literacy approach.
- Fast track visa processing for international students who pay an additional fee.
- Increase the hours international students are able to work each week from 20 to 24.
- Expand work rights for international students and their partners to make New Zealand a more attractive destination.
- Read more here and here
TOP
Spokesperson:
Raf Manji
Link to
policy here
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Raf Manji
- Give direct cash support to parents for help with early childcare & education.
- Implement a contracting model for ECE that requires the government to award contracts based on the quality of service provision, with a focus on child and community centered outcomes.
- Improve the quality of professional development for teachers.
- Offer fair pay for all teachers, increase funding for teaching assistants and improve specialist support in schools.
- Build curiosity in children and youth, including a 'facilitated play' approach to learning in the early years of schooling.
- Invest in ‘structured literacy’ to boost educational outcomes, including international accredited training for teachers.
- Support lifelong and flexible learning, including funding for ‘night schools’.
- Review the Tertiary Sector to support both student outcomes and academic research.
- Read more here
Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
Link to
policy here
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Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
- Require a minimum of 25% of the education budget be directed to Māori models of delivery and pastoral care
- Ensure that te reo Māori and Māori history are core curriculum subjects in primary up to Year 10 at secondary schools
- Establish an independent Māori Standards Authority to oversee Māori language funding and audit providers to ensure they meet cultural and reo Māori competency standards
- Fund free digital devices and free internet for all children from Yr4 – Yr13
- Remove the power of schools to expel any student younger than the school leaving age of 16
- Require that all schools have Māori in their staff senior leadership teams
- Read more here