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      <title>Budget confirms bigger class sizes and lack of investment in children</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the first time in decades, New Zealand children will be faced with bigger class sizes and a freeze on the number of teachers being employed.]]></description>
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      <title>Quality Education needs to be key focus in Christchurch</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The NZEI Re Riu Roa says ensuring the delivery of quality education needs to be the priority in any reshaping of Christchurch's education sector.]]></description>
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      <title>Science squeezed out by focus on national standards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union, NZEI Te Riu Roa says it's not surprising that less than a third of schools have been found to have effective science programmes for Year 5 to 8 students.]]></description>
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      <title>Smaller classes could solve teacher oversupply</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says smaller class sizes could provide a solution to what appears to be a teacher oversupply situation.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is welcoming New Zealand-based research which clearly debunks government claims that charter schools will help disadvantaged students and raise achievement levels.]]></description>
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      <title>Shutting down debate on paid parental leave short-sighted</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says extending paid parental leave would be a meaningful way to invest in children and families, and government attempts to shut down debate on the issue is short-sighted.]]></description>
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      <title>Charter School Working Group must work in public interest not vested interest</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says the Charter School Working Group needs to work in the public interest, not the vested interest]]></description>
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      <title>International Women’s Day should highlight shameful pay equity record</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says International Women's Day is a good time to highlight the governmentâ€™s shameful record on pay and employment equity.]]></description>
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      <title>All policy must pass the "Is it good for children?" test</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says all government decision-making and policy should be subject to the "is it good for children?" test.]]></description>
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      <title>Close watch on outcome of ministerial inquiry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says all schools and early childhood centres will be waiting with interest on the results of a ministerial inquiry into the employment of a convicted sex offender in education, to see if there are lessons to be learned.]]></description>
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      <title>New Zealand a top education performer but government policy counterproductive</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says the latest OECD education report shows New Zealand has a top performing education system but warns government policies could be counter-productive to that success.]]></description>
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      <title>Education should not be a government cash cow</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says education should not be used as a cash cow and the government would be mad to accept Treasury's latest advice.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says contrary to claims by the Education Minister, principals in south Auckland have no appetite for charter schools.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is urging the government to come clean about its agenda for education and any plans it may have to change the way school principals are hired.]]></description>
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