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This includes all 100 percent qualified teachers in early childhood education centres and improving adult:child ratios. The draft plan,, He taonga te tamaiti, sets the direction for early learning for the next 10 years and is open for consultation until 15 March 2019.
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Dear Crosbie,
Today in Dunedin, I gave my first speech to the Labour Party conference since becoming Party Leader and Prime Minister. It was great to come together with friends and colleagues to celebrate an amazing year in government and talk about how we can continue to build a fairer, kinder New Zealand.
It also provided me an opportunity to make an important announcement which I believe will be a game changer for the education of our children.
Today, I announced the Government will be employing approximately 600 Learning Support Coordinators who will work in schools to ensure children with diverse learning needs get the support they need to learn.
This will be a game changer for those children with extra needs. But it will also be a game changer for those children who don't need additional learning support, who'll now get more quality learning time with their teachers. And it will be a game changer for teachers too, who will be freed up to do what they do best – teach.
These coordinators are part of a new way of doing things and have been developed by my New Zealand First colleague and Associate Minister of Education, Tracey Martin, through the draft Disability and Learning Support Action Plan.
Today's announcement is in addition to a whole raft of things we've done over the last year to start rebuilding our public education system. They've included:
providing funding in the last Budget for 1500 more teachers;
getting rid of National Standards;
providing the first per-pupil funding increase to early childhood education in ten years; and
beginning to plug a massive hole – running to hundreds of millions of dollars – in New Zealand's schools rebuild budget.
And that's just a few of them! You can watch my speech here to hear about even more.
I have a goal to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. We simply will not achieve that unless we ensure that every single child, no matter where they live, no matter their background or ethnicity, their ability or disability, has the best education possible.
Today's announcement will significantly contribute to that goal, and for that reason, I'm extremely proud of it.
I hope you're proud too. And as I said in my speech today, I love hearing from people about how they think we're doing - so why not drop me an email or a message or comment on Facebook and let me know?
Thank you,
Jacinda
Dear Crosbie,
Today in Dunedin, I gave my first speech to the Labour Party conference since becoming Party Leader and Prime Minister. It was great to come together with friends and colleagues to celebrate an amazing year in government and talk about how we can continue to build a fairer, kinder New Zealand.
It also provided me an opportunity to make an important announcement which I believe will be a game changer for the education of our children.
Today, I announced the Government will be employing approximately 600 Learning Support Coordinators who will work in schools to ensure children with diverse learning needs get the support they need to learn.
This will be a game changer for those children with extra needs. But it will also be a game changer for those children who don't need additional learning support, who'll now get more quality learning time with their teachers. And it will be a game changer for teachers too, who will be freed up to do what they do best – teach.
These coordinators are part of a new way of doing things and have been developed by my New Zealand First colleague and Associate Minister of Education, Tracey Martin, through the draft Disability and Learning Support Action Plan.
Today's announcement is in addition to a whole raft of things we've done over the last year to start rebuilding our public education system. They've included:
providing funding in the last Budget for 1500 more teachers;
getting rid of National Standards;
providing the first per-pupil funding increase to early childhood education in ten years; and
beginning to plug a massive hole – running to hundreds of millions of dollars – in New Zealand's schools rebuild budget.
And that's just a few of them! You can watch my speech here to hear about even more.
I have a goal to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. We simply will not achieve that unless we ensure that every single child, no matter where they live, no matter their background or ethnicity, their ability or disability, has the best education possible.
Today's announcement will significantly contribute to that goal, and for that reason, I'm extremely proud of it.
I hope you're proud too. And as I said in my speech today, I love hearing from people about how they think we're doing - so why not drop me an email or a message or comment on Facebook and let me know?
Thank you,
Jacinda
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