73875 (2024). Hon Jan Tinetti to the Minister of Education

73875 (2024). Hon Jan Tinetti to the Minister of Education: What, if any, changes is the Minister considering to the four primary objectives for schools?

Hon Erica Stanford: As approved by Cabinet on 26 August 2024, I have consulted on proposals to: • make educational achievement the primary objective for school boards (to comply with the primary objective, school boards would be required to meet the other objectives in section 127) • add a new objective for school boards to take all reasonable steps to ensure the attendance of the students enrolled in their school • add a new objective for school boards to ensure that the school’s principal and staff use good quality assessment and aromatawai information to monitor and evaluate students’ progress and achievement • remove references in section 127 to student rights set out elsewhere in the Education and Training Act, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and the Human Rights Act 1993 • shift the requirement that schools achieve equitable outcomes for Māori students to the substantive part of Te Tiriti clause in section 127 • strengthen the focus of schools on the national curriculum by replacing the term ‘local curriculum’ with ‘teaching and learning programmes’ in section 127. This is also my response to written parliamentary question 73876 (2024).