Education Minister Chris Hipkins has announced school deciles will be gone by 2022 at the latest, and hopefully by 2021. But the Opposition have accused the Government of simply rolling out National Party policy two years late , and possibly taking funding away from schools. Hipkins is replacing the decile system – which allocates funding to schools based on how poor the area’s population is – with an “equity index”. The index will look at the proportion of time the child has been supported by benefits since birth; whether a child has an Oranga Tamariki notification; the age of the mother at birth; any criminal history of the father; the ethnicity of the child; the parents’ income over the previous five years; school transience; and any youth justice referrals. READ MORE: Deciles are a blunt instrument for school choice Census problems force ‘frustrated’ minister to urgently overhaul school funding Government scraps plans to replace decile funding system for schools He said this was necessary to increase targeted funding and remove the stigma associated with low-decile schools. “Getting rid of school deciles will reduce the stigma associated with them whereby too many of our schools are being judged on their decile rating, rather than what they achieve for their students. This is unfair… Read full this story
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