Parents increasingly desperate as schools accept fewer out-of-zone students
Applications are up but schools are accepting fewer students.
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Editorial: The hybrid learning debate - should our schools just ‘get back to basics'?
OPINION: Principal says 'resilience' is cliched, students toughen up by being in class.
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NY Times: Children under 2 should not be exposed to any screens, health authorities say.
‘We have to get them up to speed’ – extra lunchtime studies for NCEA tests
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Hawke's Bay schools bow out of national First XVs rugby early
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‘It is fraud’: Students kicked out after spike in out-of-zone parents sending kids to school
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Education Minister moving fast over maths failures.
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'Don't gamble with our future' students protest school closure
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State school teachers could be told to fill in at new charter schools
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OPINION: The Govt appears to be manufacturing a crisis to justify rushing the changes.
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Documents reveal ‘widespread non-compliance’ over asbestos in schools.
More than 50% of NZ schools to implement enrolment zones
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Ombudsman rebukes Auckland’s St Peter’s College and Christchurch’s Cashmere High.
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