September 12, 2012
Shearer aiming for good start in education stakes
Labour leader David Shearer says the government is all talk and no action when it comes to lifting achievement in schools.
Labour is promising meal programmes in the poorest schools and more funding for reading recovery, so students who are slipping behind get one on one attention.
Mr Shearer says the first years are the most important.
“If the kids don’t get a good start in school, they go through getting more and more disillusioned and in the end drop out and don’t go on to further studies. The Government has been talking about how we measure kids but frankly they haven’t done anything about how we actually list that tail of kids who are not getting ahead,” he says.