Flooding in Auckland has dashed hopes of a trouble-free start to the school year but principals are confident their biggest problem of the past three years, Covid-19, will cause a lot less disruption in 2023.
Principals are urging families to make hundreds of dollars in voluntary payments, warning that otherwise, public schools can only deliver a basic education.
By John Gerritsen for RNZ
One in five schools needs intensive help and only 15 per cent have effective teaching firmly established, the Education Review Of