This report shows how funding has changed and how familiar claims about the relative cost of schools have become obsolete and misleading. It addresses questions that arise about our schools: what is public, what is private, what should be the difference between them, what obligations do and should fully-funded schools have to the public which...

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...

If you're a parent of a public school student who's paying for all the extras like excursions, laptops or more books for the library you might question the idea that public schools are free. But the idea of school fees for public education has proven to be politically unviable. A leaked discussion paper from the...

Is New Zealand’s Partnership School Kura Hourua scheme really a policy ‘shambles’?

This issues paper examines the current arrangements put in place by governments to support our educational attainment: specifically in child care and early learning and schooling as Part A of two-part paper. More specifically and consistent with the White Paper’s Terms of Reference, it considers how the current split of roles and responsibilities, and the...