24 Mar 2023

Principals Federation not pleased with National Party education policy

From Morning Report, 7:23 am on 24 March 2023

The Principals' Federation is giving National's latest education announcement a failed grade.

The organisation says the new policy announced by Christopher Luxon - with its emphasis on the three Rs, reading, writing and arithmetic - is a re-run of the national standards regime of the last National-led government.

Which it says is simply not fit-for-purpose in a diverse society such as New Zealand.

NZPF president Leanne Otene spoke to Corin Dann.