A key part of Anne Tolley’s Education Amendment Bill was defeated at select committee this week.
Her policy to allow corporate takeover of the school board function either as a commissioner or limited statuory manager and allow one school board to take over another was rejected by Labour Greens and Act.
An unusual alliance driven by a variety of reasoning. One common point was the need to have an individual to hold to account when schools are under temporary governance.
Nice work
I hear rumours about secret discussions re Privatisation of Schools. Would the Tolley idea of corporate takeover be a hint of things to come? (Can’t verify the rumours sadly.)
Yes Ianmac I have been chasing the rumour down. A group appears to have been set up out of Key’s office or DPMC. It may or may not be related to the Infratil/Superfund proposal for massive PPPs.
For the record I will push hard for Labour policy to be that any transfer of schools to the private sector to be unwound -with compensation only for proven expenditure on those schools (with limits) and not for the overheads or profits.
If we had had that policy with Contact then sorting the energy market would have been much much simpler.
And the scholarships that Heather Roy has set up to allow hundreds of under-privileged kids to attend private schools…what will happen to those?
The same as happened previously – the kids (who by the way were low income on a very loose definition and included kids whose families ran their farms through trust arrangements)will be entitled to finish at the school. No new kids will enter the scheme.
( deleted off thread Trevor )