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Principals get legal advice over violent students
Advice suggests schools can legally refuse to enrol difficult children.
Thirteen complaints in a year about Katikati College
Four complaints are allegedly about the college principal.
Waihī Beach drowning: Charges laid over Hamilton student's death
Those charged will appear in the Hamilton District Court in May.
Record deal: Iwi buys land under top Auckland school for $97m
The college becomes our 145th school transferred to iwi under treaty settlements.
Ministry of Education accused of 'stealing' Taihape farm
Locals established the farm 30 years ago. Now it's in a landbank for Treaty settlements.
Mosque attack victim's mother pens free book for kids on dealing with grief
Aya and the Butterfly is written by Dr Maysoon Salama in both Arabic and English.
Northland mum launches petition to bring back school bus
Deputy principal: 'For the sake of a class of kids, every other kid's missing the bus.'
University sells $5m Parnell vice-chancellor's home weeks after damning report
After a year of backlash, the university has finally offloaded its troubled mansion.
'Deeply disturbed': TVNZ kept quiet about paedophile cameraman
Broadcaster prepared a statement about the employee but kept quiet when no one asked.
'Torn us apart': Māori student teachers open up about 'whaea' and 'matua' row
Both teachers say they were given an ultimatum - be called Mr and Miss, or leave.
'We are not coping': Ministry ordered schools to enrol 205 children in 2020
Principals says it's nearly impossible to refuse an order to enrol problem kids.
Principals call for better home internet during lockdowns
Schools want the Government to keep up connection scheme for low income families.
'Level 3 lite': Attending school is 'parent's judgment'
"It is the parent's judgment as to whether or not their child needs to be at school."
Drugs and gangs: Problems revealed as more children put in emergency housing
'Motels are no places for children,' a local social support advocate says.
3 years on a yoga mat: Mum's fight to get son a classroom chair
Zayden had to lie on the classroom floor "like a baby at a daycare centre" till he was 10.
Editorial: Bringing disabled schoolchildren back into the fold
Editorial: Long road to recognition for our disabled kids who just want to go to school.
A mother's anguish: Schools demonise my children
OPINION: Gaining support 'depends on how well you can describe your child as a monster'.
Legal fight for disabled children heads to court
Human Rights Review Tribunal picks up legal claim filed in 2008.
Children barred from school bus by 1904 law
Parents are driving kids to school because of a 1904 law barring them from school buses.
School lunches feed pensioners in lockdown
"I didn't realise it was so good, and I'm grateful that the kids are getting this."
Lockdown family's Wi-Fi nightmare
'I got like really stressed about it because I love my teacher.'
Empty schools, kindies as lockdown starts
All but 11 of Auckland Kindergarten Association's 120 kindies are empty.
Schools swing into gear - no holiday this time
No holiday for kids as Zoom classes gear up again.
Mouldy food allegations at childcare centre
Health officials are investigating the Pitter Patter Education Centre in Feilding.
Dan Bidois: How to stop the school system failing our young
Opinion: Schools, parents, and the sector need better oversight of low-performers.
On-job teacher training scheme postponed
Kiwis return from overseas to train as teachers - even in maths and science.
ECE teacher: 'Just silence' from ministry over abuse fears
The teacher reported an ECE centre four years ago for inappropriately punishing toddlers.
Worried parents swamp tuition firms after NZ school maths achievement slumps
'Overseas this is the norm, and we're seeing it increasingly ... adopted by NZ families.'
Dropping NCEA level 1 media studies is a mistake
OPINION: Media literacy is becoming increasingly important for young people.
Experts urge overhaul of school system
The chair of the Tomorrow's Schools Review Taskforce says reform is needed.
'Generalist' teachers mean smartest science students go unnoticed
The researchers said there had been a focus on literacy and numeracy in primary schools.
NZ history curriculum slammed as 'unbalanced'
Draft curriculum proposes 'three big ideas' - all about Māori and colonisation.
Aotearoa NZ History: Step closer for all schools to learn in 2022
A draft curriculum content has begun today after years of NZ history neglect in schools