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QPEC adds its support to “Feed the Kids” Bill
Wednesday, 1 May 2013, 4:37 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC is delighted to join the growing number of organisations supporting the “Feed the Kids” Bill. More >>
PM's School of Choice Gets 40% Funding Increase in Two Years
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 9:16 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Prime Minister Increases Kings College Funding By An Eye-Watering 40% In Just Two Years More >>
Prime Minister increases Kings College Funding By 40%
Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 9:25 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Media Release: Prime Minister increases Kings College Funding By An Eye-Watering 40% In Just Two Years Today’s revelation that the government is giving active consideration to increasing state subsidies to private schools in the budget (RNZ story today) ... More >>
Charter Schools Outrageous Attack On Democracy
Thursday, 7 March 2013, 8:29 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
6 March 2013 Media Release: Charter Schools Outrageous Attack On Democracy Today’s Ministry of Education release requesting applications for charter schools before the legislation allowing them has been agreed by parliament is outrageous. The applications ... More >>
John Banks gives two-fingered salute to parliament
Saturday, 2 March 2013, 3:11 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Act Party leader and Associate Education Minister John Banks has given a two-fingered salute to parliament with his premature appointment of the government’s new charter school authorisation board. More >>
Proposed Chch School Closures: A Tale Of Two Policies
Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 8:31 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
18 February 2013 Media Release: Proposed Christchurch School Closures A Tale Of Two Policies The Minister of Education’s decision to close and merge several local community schools in Christchurch is premature, unnecessary and insensitive. Schools ... More >>
Longstone resignation welcomed – Hekia Parata should follow
Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 2:15 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Education Secretary Lesley Longstone’s resignation will be welcomed across the education sector as would be an announcement that Minister of Education Hekia Parata will follow suit. More >>
Longstone should tender her resignation
Monday, 29 October 2012, 9:13 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Education Secretary Lesley Longstone’s claim, in the Ministry of Education’s annual report, that New Zealand does not have a world class education system is a nasty untruth. More >>
What John Banks needs to explain about charter schools
Tuesday, 25 September 2012, 9:53 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC will be distributing a new leaflet on KIPP charter schools at the ACT-organised public meetings to promote charter schools for New Zealand. More >>
The titillating presentation of misleading information
Monday, 24 September 2012, 9:18 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
www.qpec.org.nz 23 September 2012 Media Release: League table: the titillating presentation of misleading information QPEC joins the chorus of school principals and educators to condemn the government-sanctioned release of school league tables based on national ... More >>
No excuses left: Hekia Parata must face elephant in the room
Sunday, 23 September 2012, 3:18 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Ministry of Education and media analysis of national standards data so far suggests the main messages are about gender (boys underperforming wrt girls) and ethnicity (Maori and Pacific students underperforming wrt others) More >>
KIPP Schools: No thanks we’re kiwis
Thursday, 20 September 2012, 8:56 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Wealthy “philanthro-capitalist” Julian Robertson has brought Mike Feinberg from the KIPP (Knowledge is Power) charter school programme to New Zealand to promote charter schools and prepare the way for the privatisation of public education. More >>
Govt proposals for Christchurch schooling a “tangled mess”
Monday, 17 September 2012, 1:50 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The proposals for Christchurch School closures, mergers and changes reflect a confusing mass of conflicting purposes, reasons and justifications, according to a local education expert. More >>
State school system targeted by global philanthrocapitalists
Monday, 17 September 2012, 9:19 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Another twist in the National-ACT charter school experiment comes with the revelation that a private foundation is apparently to sponsor a visit to New Zealand by the head of a controversial charter school management organisation – the Knowledge ... More >>
Christchurch schools to reopen as charter schools?
Friday, 14 September 2012, 9:08 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC is calling on the government to come clean over the decision to close 13 public schools in Christchurch as part of an educational re-organisation following the city’s earthquakes. More >>
A good start for Labour on education policy
Monday, 10 September 2012, 1:44 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
www.qpec.org.nz 10 September 2012 Media Release: A good start for Labour on education policy QPEC is pleased to see the Labour Party begin to announce some significant improvements in its education policy compared to National’s dangerous drive to ... More >>
ERO - a biased political weapon for the government
Thursday, 30 August 2012, 8:57 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
ERO claimed yesterday’s report was a “wake-up” call for teachers, principals and Boards of Trustees and highlighted what it said was schools’ “three most important shortcomings” – schools need to focus on the needs of individual students, ... More >>
QPEC Applauds Children’s Commissioner’s report
Wednesday, 29 August 2012, 9:29 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC applauds the recommendations from the expert advisory group setup by the Children’s Commissioner for the provision of free meals in schools, improving housing for those on low-incomes and re-introducing a universal child payment of $125 to $150 per week. More >>
John Key – “do as I say, not as I do”
Monday, 6 August 2012, 10:07 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
On Friday Prime Minister John Key said he’d be happy for his kids to be taught by unregistered teachers but we can’t find any at the schools he chose for his children. John Key made the assertion when defending the government’s decision ... More >>
NZ model of charter schools” is political not educational
Friday, 3 August 2012, 9:21 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Yesterday’s announcement of details of the New Zealand model of charter schools is confirmation that the policy is political and ideological rather than educational. More >>
