‘PPTA Te Wehengarua supports a fully funded public education system’ says President Chris Abercrombie.
We have a large variety of schools already in the New Zealand system which, compared to other countries, is already highly devolved.
“We’ve got huge flexibility that already exists within the system. We’ve got state, we’ve got state-integrated, we’ve got special
character, we’ve got religious… we’ve got alternative education, we’ve got private schools, we’ve got single-sex, co-ed, we’ve got small, large, urban, rural”.
Abercrombie said the focus should be on public education through which the vast majority of students received their education.
“Building up our public school system, funding it properly, having qualified registered teachers in front of every young person and having subject specialists, that should be our focus, not getting public money to private individuals to run schools as they see fit”.
Read more about PPTA’s campaign against charter schools in New Zealand.