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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.

Helping to foster better parents
A teaching method for caregivers of children from broken homes is "a bit like Supernanny" says the boss of a scheme aimed at coaching foster parents.

School reeling after death of student
A Gisborne school community is reeling from the tragic loss of a student, after an 11-year-old died in a freak accident on Wednesday night.

<i>Audrey Young:</i> Up to $400m hidden costs for parents
Bill English has delivered a Budget in which he can have a bob each way, writes Audrey Young.

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.

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.