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Literacy service axed in Budget 2025, leaving 109 specialists jobless
Educators describe the decision as “unjustifiable,” fearing negative impacts on students with complex literacy challenges. Video / Rafaella Melo
'Deeply distressing': Pupil airlifted to hospital with critical injuries
The Ministry of Education's traumatic incident team is actively supporting the school.
Hamilton schools lockdown ends with imitation firearms seized, person in custody
Police were called to Silverdale Road just before 3pm.
Opinion: Preparing kids to start school – it’s not as simple as blaming parents
OPINION: Parents are doing their best within constraints not entirely of their making.
Primary school targeted in native tree poisoning attack, principal hits out at police
Principal Deborah Barclay says police and the council seem ambivalent to the offending.
Opinion: Why Govt’s latest plan for schools might fail history test
OPINION: A recent experience with standardised testing didn’t achieve what was promised.
Toni Street, Sir Graham Henry and more lead farewell to Belmont Primary's 'coolest' principal
Bruce Cunningham is retiring after 45 years of teaching. Video / Supplied
Bruce Cotterill: Who’s at fault on school lunches?
OPINON: An attitude of ingratitude has poisoned the school lunch rollout.
Students claim man tried to get them into his vehicle
Police and school staff are warning students not to accept rides from stranger
Late, burnt and leaking: School rejects burnt lunches, opts for pizza instead
Whangārei Intermediate had to send back burnt and leaking school lunches.
Girl, 5, put outside classroom as punishment leaves school alone, found with stranger
'She tried to go back home because she reckoned nobody wanted her in the classroom'.
Opinion: As new charter schools open, we still know too little about how they worked last time
OPINION: $153m being spent on charter schools would pay for more than 700 teacher aides.
School lunch provider admits halal meals ‘friendly’ but not certified
Lunch provider Compass admits halal meals it delivers to schools are not halal certified.
Letters: Many people are starting the new year in debt
OPINION: The Prime Minister needs to set the standards in Parliament.
Overseas-born students driving roll growth in Rotorua
'We're getting an even spread of New Zealand-born and overseas-born students.'
Letters: How to cut cost of school uniforms, why would PM attend Waitangi?
OPINION: 'I cannot deny that Donald Trump's strategy is masterful.'
'Bland' school lunches arrive up to three hours late, just before home-time
Principals had to buy food to tide students over or pull them out of class to eat late.
Opinion: Why NZ schools need more trees
OPINION: A recent study finds too many playgrounds need better tree cover.
Editorial: Back to school costs crippling for many Kiwi families
OPINION: Families are feeling the weight of these expenses.
Opinion: Is it time to reconsider kids' device use in schools?
OPINION: Young Kiwis spent on average of six hours per day using screens.
Back to School: Parents reuse and repurpose to save money on expensive devices
Families should try to avoid finance options if possible, say budgeting advisers.
Back to School: Mum of three’s cost-cutting uniform tips
Parents are saving hundreds being prepared and buying secondhand.
Back To School
Mum of three give tips on how to get kids into uniform without breaking the bank.
'It's very transparent': Parents praise new compulsory structured literacy for schools
How we learn to read and write will completely change for some Kiwi kids.
Editorial: New Year Honours List shows the exceptional Kiwis who stepped up in 2024
OPINION: If you're thinking of how you want to change, there's plenty of inspiration.
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit honour for Kaiti School principal
New Year Honours-recognised principal heaps praise on Kaiti's 'exceptional teachers'.
Call for mandatory child protection training for teachers
Teachers are in prime position to notice signs of child abuse.