Election 2020 - Party Policies - Education - Primary Education
25th Jul 20, 5:50am
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Primary Education
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- Support the development of schools as community hubs which can include onsite health/welfare and cultural services accessible to local communities.
- Provide incentives including significant additional funding to schools, early childhood centres and kura for collaborative and co-operating ventures.
- Ensure that all schools and early childhood services have policies, practices, resources and programmes to create a whole school culture that is inclusive, and supports the identification and elimination of prejudice, racism, bullying, intimidation, and violence.
- Establish a healthy school lunch programme for all schools in New Zealand that has buy-in from parents and has a high level of uptake.
- Support the retention of rural schools and the concept of neighbourhood primary schools. Review school transport funding to provide better and safer transport services for rural learners, including urban and low decile areas where distance is a barrier.
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- Invest an additional $4.8 billion in school infrastructure, including $2 billion over five years for the Fix New Zealand’s Schools Alliance, and another $2.8 billion over a decade for new classrooms and schools to accommodate growth and reduce the need to impose restrictive zoning requirements.
- Establish a $160 million per year fund to support children with additional learning, behavioural and physical needs – allocated based on school roll and need – so schools can invest in the initiatives they believe are appropriate for their student community.
- Invest $150 million over four years to fund an additional six million hours of teacher aide support in classrooms, equivalent to around 1500 new teacher aides (at 25 hours per week), or an average of 600 hours per school each year.
- Deliver smaller class sizes by progressively reducing student-to-teacher ratios in primary schools. This will reduce teacher workloads and make sure children get more focused teacher attention in their foundation years.
- Establish at least 25 new partnership schools by 2023, including some focussed on high-priority learners such as Māori and Pasifika; children with additional learning needs; and in specialist education areas such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
- Abolish the annual registration fee that teachers are currently required to pay to the Teaching Council for certification to teach.
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