September 05, 2017
ACT fails on education lessons – Davis
Labour’s deputy leader Kelvin Davis says National and its support party ACT are pushing failed policies that show they fail to understand the complexity of education.
ACT’s David Seymour has touted his party’s success in getting charter schools, and he’s, now pushing for extra funding for schools that opt out of the centralised payroll system and collective agreements.
Mr Davis, a former intermediate school principal, says that’s a return to bulk funding, which didn’t work.
ACT’s promise to pay good teachers up to $20,000 also falls down because of the problems with assessing performance, given the wide range of tasks teachers need to do.
"It’s a juicy carrot to say we will raise teachers' salaries by $20,000 if they ditch the unions but after that pay rates would fall because without a collective, that's just what would happen. It's been shown all around the world that pay rates diminish if there is no union and there is no collective," Mr Davis says.
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