January 24, 2014
Maori schools included in change agenda
Education Minister Hekia Parata says Maori immersion schools will have the same access to new staff funding as mainstream schools.
The Government yesterday unveiled four new positions in the education system that will come with enhanced salaries:
– Change principals who can be brought in to lift achievement at struggling schools, who will get an extra $50,000 on top of their salaries;
– Executive principals who will provide leadership across a community of schools for another $40,000 a year;
– Expert teachers in areas like maths and science, digital technology and literacy, who will pick up an extra $20,000 a year; and
– lead teachers – highly capable teachers who will get another $5000 a year to act as role models for teachers within their own schools.
"This is for the whole of the system, for Maori immersion and English immersion schools, state and state integrated. The working group I have asked the secretary of education to put together to look at the design details includes representation from nga kura kaupapa, representation from nga kura a iwi, and represesentation from the Pasifika Principals Association along with the NZEI, PPTA, school trustees, principals association etc," Ms Parata says.
She says the new roles are part of an integrated package, and the executive and change principals won’t be expected to act on their own.
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