Schools that operate an enrolment scheme could offer excess places to out-of-zone students, with priority given to children who had been accepted into a special programme, then to the siblings of current students.
Third and fourth priority was given to the children of former siblings and the children of former students.
But one ministry proposal would scrap the parental priority, and elevate the children of board members and a school's employees to priority three.
The changes were proposed after a 2019 investigation found “systemic inequities in educational outcomes in New Zealand”. The taskforce concluded that “improving equity of access to schooling” was important to reducing this.