More money will be spent lifting teacher numbers over the next four years.

Exclusive: A new type of school without playing fields is being proposed for urban areas.

New Education Minister Nikki Kaye widens targets: 3 Rs plus healthy and well-rounded.

Christchurch students travel the distance of a trip to the moon to get to top schools.

Three boys at a top school have been expelled for assault.

Five state school principals have taken top jobs in private schools in the past two years.

Over 10 years the percentage of students buying lunches from tuck shops has halved.

Lynn Euphemia Abraham is defending 11 charges against nine children.

Lynn Euphemia Abraham is defending 11 charges against nine different children.

Low-decile schools are slowest to join new a scheme that funds extra teachers

COMMENT: Obsessive focus on literacy and numeracy is squeezing lifeblood from creativity.

Interactive: Statistics for 2016 show winners and losers by decile.

The man pleaded not guilty to charges including sexual connection and indecent assault.

Teachers are being kicked, punched and stabbed by children of P-addicted mothers.

Children suffering from exposure to meth in the womb are arriving at schools.

Boys, Maori and Pacific students have gained more than average in the latest NCEA results.

Parents looking for school that will take autistic Hamilton boy expelled for hitting.

COMMENT: University staff should be heeded when they cite pressure to drop standards.

New Lynn's Fruitvale School will get a new $9.5 million classroom block.

Auckland's population growth has sparked a school zoning row in Mt Albert.

Officials will remind all schools that compulsory "BYO device" policies are illegal.

Local educators feel penalised for looking after children with new vetting charges.

A teen couple say they have been forced to stay at home in fear after their school said it could not ensure their safety.

EDITORIAL: "Streaming" schoolkids by ability might explain their declining performance.

The Ministry of Education is ruling out any changes to the teaching of sexual consent in schools.

Schools should respond to pupils who marched on Parliament this week.

OPINION: Childcare and early education needs to be less like school, says Sarah Alexander.

Big housing development leads to new classrooms for primary school.

Carter Holt Harvey has dragged 47 local body governments into its leaky schools court case after losing a bid to have the Ministry of Education's claim tossed out.

An accidental strangling in an Australian school has led to one Auckland school moving to cut off the cords from pupils' hats in a bid to prevent similar incidents here.