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.

Around $9 million will be invested in the redevelopment of Edgecumbe College in the Bay of Plenty, Education Minister Hekia Parata

LEAVE: Ngarimu Simpkins, pictured in court this week, has gone on leave while Rotorua Boys' High School makes a decision about his

EXCLUSIVE: Mother hits out at Wellington primary school's "dirty little secret": "I'm horrified a school would do that, my son is petrified of the dark."

More than 1300 schools will be worse off as a result of a radical new funding system, the Herald can reveal.

The release of seclusion and restraint guidelines to teachers faced with violent and extreme situations has been delayed due to legal problems.

Teachers are demanding to know if they risk police charges for physically separating school fights or defending themselves when students attack.

The news that teachers fear legal action for stopping school fights underlines what a hard job school teaching must be.

The Productivity Commission is toying with the idea that secondary school students begin a savings fund for university.

Putting interest back on student loans is being categorically ruled out, as the Government eyes changes to tertiary education.

Herald investigation: Some teenagers are taking spurious NCEA standards - learning about toilet cleaning, household shopping and shift work.

The number of "extra" teachers paid by schools has shot up by more than 50 per cent over the past four years, new figures show.

COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.

School-age students will be able to enrol in an accredited online learning provider instead of attending school, under new Government legislation.

The Fox Glacier School roll has fallen to five, its lowest number in over 20 years when the village school was briefly closed.

Struggling families who keep their children from school to mind younger siblings or sick parents are believed to be behind alarming

Parents are insisting their tamariki get a Maori education and immersion schools are feeling the pressure.

School classes will be disrupted as thousands of teachers hold meetings about a funding proposal feared to be the return of bulk funding.

Official targets for Maori primary pupils are likely to be missed by as much as 20 per cent in some cases.

About 70 children will have to move out of their Ellerslie preschool at the end of this term to make way for a planned retirement village.

It is a tough task for teenagers to make sound decisions about their career path.

Labour wants careers advice to be more professional.

Newmarket School will get a four-storey high classroom block to cater for its growing roll as part of an $8.7 million redevelopment of the site.

Christchurch's Redcliffs School will stay open, it has been announced.