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Govt puts up $104m for leaky-school repairs, checks
The number of known leaking schools is now 145, double the estimate in September last year. The worst will benefit from $82 million allocated in the Budget for remedial work in the next year.
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Budget 2010: $1bn of education funding reprioritised
The education sector has had to come up with more than half of the $1.9 billion to fund new education initiatives over the next four years.
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Transient students struggle to catch up
Turnover rates at some schools are sitting at around 56 per cent - more than half of the children who start the year don't finish there.
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Teens in Third World schooling
Our neediest teenagers are often being educated in "Third World" conditions without trained teachers, textbooks or standard school services.
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Sect pupils in a class of their own
Imagine a New Zealand school whose books had words blacked out or pages removed and large parts of the curriculum were simply not taught.
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Key: Students need to respect taxpayer funding
The Govt can afford interest-free student loans but there needs to be more respect for taxpayer funding, John Key says.
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Teachers may strike next term
Teachers could go on strike as early as next month amid building tension between their union and Education Minister Anne Tolley.