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Need for more equity funding for low decile schools
Report shows need for more equity funding for low decile
schools
12 July 2016
Research reported today showing a
two-year gap in achievement between students from low decile
schools compared with those from higher decile schools shows
the desperate need for better resourcing and support for
schools in poorer areas.
NZEI Te Riu Roa President Louise Green says teachers and principals are very concerned that the government’s funding review will mean less support for low decile schools at the very time that more support is desperately needed.
"There was no increase in overall funding in this year's Budget and the government is signalling that the decile funding scheme is likely to be scrapped to be replaced by even more tightly targeted funding.
"This means many more students will miss out on equity funding at a time when there is growing inequity.
“Instead of increasing funding for private schools and targeting equity funding to a smaller group of at-risk students, the government needs to put more resources into equity funding. It needs to do this without removing existing funding from school and early childhood education.
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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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