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Ki te Hoe! Picking Up the Wero for Election 2026 (opens the original)
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Every election, we hear the same statistics about voter turnout. We see the turnout graphs, read the op-eds, and watch campaigns try to reach voters from the top down. But if you talk to people in our communities who don’t enrol or vote, the story isn’t about apathy - it’s usually about real, practical barriers, feeling disempowered, or simply not knowing where to start.This election it is more important than ever to support our people to have a voice through voting as the rules have changed for
Waiting for the Arts Curriculum: Much Ado About Consultation (opens the original)
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School Briefs: The OIA issue, NZPF stands up to Minister, Election Platform is ready (opens the original)
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Sunday Read - Education: Bigger Than Politics (opens the original)
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Our children deserve an education system that is ambitious without being ideological, coherent without being rigid, and accountable without losing sight of the human beings at its centre.For too long, education policy in Aotearoa has swung between competing extremes. Educators hold on for dear life as we swing between more freedom then more prescription, knowledge vs skills, excellence vs equity, and national consistency vs local responsiveness. We don’t believe these are either/or choices - the
Whose experiment has ‘failed’? (opens the original)
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In October 2025 our Minister of Education put out a press release titled ‘Transformational new entrant reading’ where she celebrated the success of the Term 3 Phonics Check results. In the release we got a quote from Minister Stanford:“This is an incredible improvement in reading scores in less than half a year and reflects the brilliant work teachers are doing. These results are evidence our structured literacy reforms work for everyone, all schools, all ethnicities, all deciles. Raising readin
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