Budget 2021: More funding for special needs kids on principals wishlist John Gerritsen
The government goes into Budget 2021 facing complex and competing demands from schools.
On the one hand are hot-button issues like support for violent children and funding for dilapidated classrooms.
On the other are big picture school reforms agreed to a year-and-a-half ago following the Tomorrow s Schools Review Taskforce.
Among those changes are an overhaul of the entire school funding system, including a replacement for the much-criticised school deciles, and the creation of a new Education Ministry unit to give schools greater support.
Principals believe action on the reforms is now due, but they told RNZ they also want more funding for the day-to-day problems.
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