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The Green Party says the charter school experiment is not working and needs to stop.
The third round of applications for charter schools closes tomorrow.
Greens education spokesperson Catherine Delahunty says budget documents show only 41 percent of students left charter schools with NCEA Level 2, well short of the target of 67 percent.
She says the Government promised charter schools would be the solution to educational underachievement, especially for Maori and children from poorer families, but the results indicate that in many cases kids may be doing worse.
She says the Government has an obligation to ensure that all children have every opportunity to succeed at school, not to experiment on them because of its coalition agreement with the Act Party.
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