Charter schools

[Lilith7]

The charter schools really don't seem to be of much use for some kids.  Why is it so difficult for politicians to simply ask teachers what's needed & act accordingly?

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/35027...ol-funding

According to NZEI, when adjusted for inflation, it would cost $60,000 per student today, compared to the $9000 per student public schools are funded.
Documents showed 30% of the cost (more than $35m) was departmental, back office spending.
Seymour said the charter school funding was largely done on a “per-student basis,” and will be “broadly equivalent to that for state schools”.

But RNZ reported that Cabinet papers suggested charter schools would increase government costs yet may only deliver marginal benefits.
The papers showed the $153m, allocated over four years for reviving the schools, was mostly for the extra cost of opening and administering the schools, RNZ said.
NZEI president Mark Potter said the funding for charter schools was a “distraction” from the help needed in the public system.
The $153m could pay for 700 fulltime teaching assistants across the country, he said.
“It's frustrating to see things getting serious investment that the majority were not calling for, when the things that we have been calling for, for some time, still don’t get the investment they need,” he said.