MPs: please vote to abolish charter schools today - PPTA

MPs: please vote to abolish charter schools today - PPTA

Teachers around the country are hopeful MPs will look at the evidence and vote in parliament today to abolish charter schools.

PPTA president Angela Roberts says, “Charter schools are not needed in Aotearoa New Zealand. We already have a public education system that is responsive to local communities and can provide quality teaching and learning to all students.”

“We urge MPs to look at the multitude of evidence that shows how charter schools undermine education, taking much needed resources away from our students in public schools, and vote to end them.”

“One charter school has already failed and others are consistently over-funded and under-achieving. The taxpayer money being poured into them would be much better spent on our kura and public schools.” Ms Roberts says.

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