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GERM agenda sucks money out of public education
GERM agenda sucks money out of public
education
16 May 2014
Figures in yesterday’s Budget show that millions of dollars are being skimmed out of public schools to pay for the government’s ideological experiments with the Global Education Reform Movement.
More than $12m over two years is being transferred to five charter schools (which currently teach a total of just 367 children) and $1.145m into Public-Private Partnerships.
NZEI Te Riu Roa President Judith Nowotarski said the incredibly high per-head cost of running charter schools was being paid at the expense of public school students and teachers.
“It seems parents of special needs children can beg for more funding until they’re blue in the face, but when it comes to the government’s ideological projects, money is no problem – just take it out of the public system,” she said.
“Treasury officials warned that any Public Private Partnerships for building schools would result in minimal savings – after all, tax payers have to pay the construction company’s profit margins. But on top of that, the government has pulled more than $1m from public school budgets for the PPP projects in Hobsonville.”
Charter
schools
Charter schools received an extra
$7.978m from the Secondary education budget line through
appropriations (p 211 Vote Education Supplementary estimates
of appropriations document) and an additional $1.252m from
Primary Education (p 210 of the Supplementary Estimates) for
the first tranche of schools in 2013/4 and they will get an
additional $3.384m in 2014/15. (page 2 of Vote Education
Initiatives paper).
Public Private
Partnerships
$1.145 has been transferred from
the School Property Portfolio Management to Hobsonville
Point
PPPs.
NZEI Te Riu Roa
New Zealand Educational Institute
NZEI Te Riu Roa members work in every community in New Zealand, leading and advocating for quality public education.
We are the 50,000 principals, teachers and support staff who work in primary, area and secondary schools as well as early childhood centres, special education and school advisory services. We come together as NZEI Te Riu Roa - New Zealand's largest education union, a Treaty based organisation and a powerful advocate for quality public education.
We have the most important job in New Zealand - educating for the future.
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