Election year:
2023
Political party:
Act
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Education
- 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.
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