Introduction

This report provides you with a detailed stock-take of the current system for funding school-age education in New Zealand.

At a high level, the stock-take is organised around the key policy questions that underpin a schooling funding system. We could consider each of these policy questions to progressively and systematically review schooling funding:

• Choices about funding access to schooling
• Choices about how delivery of education services is funded
• Choices about how funding is provided
• Choices about how funding is calculated
• Choices about the timing of resourcing
• Choices about how funding can be used