RT @SimeonBrownMP: #REVEALED The Ministry of Pacific Peoples spent almost $53,000 on four Budget 2023 breakfast events promoting labour MP’….

Labour want to mandate their Common Practice Model of how teachers should teach in our schools. Just a reminder of what the latest common practice model says about maths….

What do you want to know?.

Back on Track meeting with Chris Luxon at AUT University. Full house with overflow in the lecture theatre next door. #BackOnTrack101

Completely unbelievable that Labour have just said that they aren’t going to support Nicola Willis’ members bill to allow mums and dads to take their parental leave at the same time should they wish.

New data shows that the percentage of school leavers attaining NCEA Level 2 has consistently fallen under Labour. Just 59% of Māori students attained Level 2 in 2022 - a 10% drop since 2017. Labour have erased years of progress achieved under the last National Government.

Labour’s failed experiment in rewriting the science curriculum will put Kiwi kids at a massive disadvantage.

Jan Tinetti is responsible for the educational outcomes of hundreds of thousands of kiwi kids and a $17 billion budget. Today she was found to have acted with a high degree of negligence. Questions need to be asked if she is up to this task.

RT @NewshubNationNZ: 'Simply not safe': Early childhood sector fear Budget funding will compromise the quality of care. Newshub Nation spok….

The PIRLS international reading study released tonight shows the reading ability of our Year 5 students continues to decline. NZ recorded its lowest score since the study began in 2001. Without urgent change, our literacy and numeracy standards will continue to decline.

This is a resounding vote of no confidence in Jan Tinetti & Labour on education. Chris Hipkins spent half a decade as Education Minister overseeing a decline in achievement. A National Government will Teach the Basics Brilliantly to set every kid up for success later in life.

New classrooms will sit empty if Labour continues failing to get kids to school and learning the basics. Only 1/2 of kids are attending regularly . Rather than excuses and empty classrooms National will restore confidence in the education system by teaching the basics brilliantly.

Instead of being helpful and supportive of his constituents, Greg O’Connor reportedly accuses a young Sri Lankan resident student of being from a corrupt country and having corrupt intentions. PM needs to haul Greg in for a please explain.

The correct response to this young Sri Lankan NZ resident student studying at Vic Uni was - “The rules as they stand mean you are not eligible for a student loan. But let me raise your case with ministers in case they may wish to review this policy.” .

PM must ask Greg O’Connor for a please explain & apology over his reported shameful comments implying that because a student was from a corrupt country she was asking for a corrupt deal to bend the rules, so she could access a student loan. More evidence of an anti-migrant gvt.

In February Labour promised 82 attendance officers for Term 2. 3 months later & weeks into Term 2 it turns out they are just 82 advisors and only 1 has started working. Tinetti should stop blaming her officials and take responsibility for this shambles.

Jan Tinetti needs to explain how publishing a timeline of attendance data releases will ensure greater transparency when the Ministry of Education already gave her a timeline of data releases in November which didn’t stop her office delaying Term 3 data for another 10 weeks.

Jan Tinetti has just said in Parliament that she thought it was a coincidence that attendance data that she saw on the 14th of December was released 10 weeks later on the same day as her attendance announcement on the 21st of February.

Jan Tinetti - “I can categorically tell that member that the Ministry of Education is responsible for the data. I have no say over that…”. But emails released under the OIA show that political staff in her office delayed the release of critical attendance data for 10 weeks!

Tinetti must come clean and explain how it is possible that she did not know her staff were delaying the release of the Term 3 data to align with her political announcement.

Labour has been caught red-handed trying to deceive New Zealanders over the delay of critical school attendance data.