Raw footage of the moment two students launched at a police officer after another allegedly attacked the principal's car has been revealed online.

The abduction and sexual assault of a boy, 11, has left parents and schools in Ranui on edge.

Two schools became an unexpected battleground today in the squabble over who will win over Mt Roskill.

The Education Council is set to receive $21 million, to keep it afloat until it can raise teacher registration fees.

A number of schools have been closed due to flooding, affecting some students due to sit exams after afternoon.

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

Most schools will open tomorrow, following hundreds of closures after the quake.

Scholarship exams have been cancelled, but NCEA exams can go ahead in schools if they are not earthquake damaged, NZQA says.

The two toddlers most seriously hurt when a tree toppled at an Auckland daycare last Tuesday are expected to be discharged on Monday.

An event at Hill St Early Childhood Centre in Wellington this morning will publicise the campaign to restore funding and quality to ECE.

It is unbelievable that a difficult child could be locked in a tiny cell at any New Zealand school nowadays.

An Auckland primary school is asking parents to fork out up to $100 for a transition-to-school programme for under 5s.

Consultation has begun on an update of the 20-year-old early childhood education curriculum.

A massive privacy breach has struck the beleaguered Novopay school payroll with personal details of staff members sent to wrong schools.

The mum whose complaint about a cell-like seclusion room at a primary school sparked a proposed law change says it's "what she wanted most".

The Government's crackdown on student loan borrowers in Australia has stepped up a notch.

More 18-year-olds are leaving school with NCEA Level 2 - a "stand-out" achievement in Government education targets.

Minister of Education Hekia Parata will be making a big move after she finishes her role in government next year.

A taxi driver who repeatedly molested a special needs teenager has been denied parole.

COMMENT: The first time our son stuttered I burst out laughing. By the next day he could barely get a word out at all and it wasn't a laughing matter.

The Ministry of Education has put schools on notice: stop using cell-like seclusion rooms as punishment immediately.

Education Minister Hekia Parata revealed that 8 of the 64 special schools in New Zealand are using a seclusion room.

Education Minister Hekia Parata says the Prime Minister's suggestion that her husband's ill-health played a part in her shock decision to retire from politics is wrong.

Top education and police chiefs are investigating their own staff following accusations they sent porn to a Northland principal.

Mandatory CCTV cameras in special needs transport is still not in place, more than a year after the Ministry of Education vowed it was imminent.

Principal advocate says difficult students may be informally removed but additional support was needed or all other students bore the brunt.

Cambridge High School and Ngaruawahia High School Waikato will both undergo major redevelopments at a cost of $17 million.

COMMENT: Recent cases indicate violence between and against children is widely accepted.

The Chief Ombudsman will investigate the use of seclusion rooms in schools, following reports that locked "time out" rooms had been used to restrain children.

The Ministry of Education is due to release a report into a cell-like seclusion room used by a Wellington primary school as punishment.