27 Aug 2020

Anger at funding for Taranaki Green School

From Morning Report, 6:45 am on 27 August 2020

The Educational Institute says teachers are fuming at Green Party co-leader James Shaw's announcement of an 11.7 million dollar funding package for in a private school in Taranaki.

Shaw says the 'shovel ready' project at the Green School in Oakura is part of the Covid-19 economic response and will secure 200 jobs.

The union's national secretary, Paul Goulter told our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin the investment flies in the face of Green Party policy.

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