Research on educational equality in New Zealand:
http://www.dw.com/en/what-does-educational-equality-mean-anyway/a-15927951Across the world - Millions of children can't attend school
Among the population lacking school qualifications, Maori have nearly double the incidence of people lacking school qualifications as Pakeha/Europeans and quadruple those of Asians, and conversely they show much lower rates of tertiary attainment. Whereas Maori and Pacific Islander tertiary attainment rates have been rising, they are not catching up to those of other ethnicities (Chapter 2).
New Zealand Law:
Right to free primary and secondary education
Except as provided in this Act or the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975, every person who is not an international student is entitled to free enrolment and free education at any State school or partnership school kura hourua during the period beginning on the person’s fifth birthday and ending on 1 January after the person’s 19th birthday.
Restrictions on enrolment at primary school
(1)
No person under 5 shall be or continue to be enrolled at a primary school, or in a class below form 3 at a composite school.
(2)
No person who turned 14 in any year shall be or continue to be enrolled at a primary school, or in a class below form 3 at a composite school, in the next year.
(3)
No person who, in the opinion of the Secretary,—
(a)
has completed the work of form 3; or
(b)
has completed work equivalent to the work of form 2,—
shall in any year be or continue to be enrolled at a primary school, or in a class below form 3 at a composite school.
(4)
Notwithstanding subsection (1), at any time before 1 January 1993, this Act shall apply to children attending pre-school classes at any school specified in section 3(2) of the Education Amendment Act 1990 as if they are enrolled at the school; but on that day, all those classes shall be deemed to have been disestablished.
(5)
Nothing in subsection (4) limits or affects section 308(4).
Restrictions on enrolment at secondary school
No person who, in the opinion of the Secretary,—
(a)
has not completed the work of form 2; and
(b)
has not completed work equivalent to the work of form 2,—
shall in any year be or continue to be enrolled at a secondary school, or in a class above form 2 at a composite school, unless the person turned 13 before 1 April in the previous yea
Equal rights to primary and secondary education
(1)
Except as provided in this Part, people who have special educational needs (whether because of disability or otherwise) have the same rights to enrol and receive education at State schools as people who do not.
(2)
Nothing in subsection (1) affects or limits the effect of Part 2 (which relates to enrolment schemes and the suspension, expulsion, and exclusion of students).
New Zealand citizens and residents between 6 and 16 to go to school
(1)
Except as provided in this Act, every person who is not an international student is required to be enrolled at a registered school at all times during the period beginning on the person’s sixth birthday and ending on the person’s16th birthday.
(2)
Before a child’s seventh birthday, the child is not required to be enrolled at any school more than 3 kilometres walking distance from the child’s residence.
Students required to enrol must attend school
(1)
Except as provided in this Act, every student of a registered school (other than a correspondence school) who is required by section 20 to be enrolled at a registered school shall attend the school whenever it is open.
(2)
Every board and every sponsor of a partnership school kura hourua shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that students who are required by subsection (1) to attend the school whenever it is open do so.
(3)
For the purposes of this section, a student attends a school on any day if, on the day,—
(a)
it has been open for instruction for 4 hours or more; and
(b)
the student has been present for 4 hours or more when it was open for instruction.
(4)
Nothing in subsections (1) to (3) applies to a participating student who is enrolled at a registered school for the purposes of the secondary component of his or her secondary-tertiary programme, but he or she must attend the school for any portion of the programme as notified by the provider group or lead provider under section 31J.
(5)
Nothing in subsections (1) to (3) applies to an affected student.
(6)
An affected student must attend school for the whole of the time period (or periods) each day during which the student’s timetable is running.
(7)
A board or a sponsor that is running a multiple timetable arrangement must take all reasonable steps to ensure that an affected student attends the school for the whole of the time period (or periods) each day during which the student’s timetable is running.
Removing barriers through equity funding
Equity funding provides additional targeted funding to make early learning opportunities equally available to everyone. It also helps services to raise educational achievement regardless of people's cultural background, socio-economic status or location.
How equity funding works
Equity funding is paid to the early learning service. There are 4 components to the funding.
- Funding for lower socio-economic communities
- Funding for special needs or for children from non-English speaking backgrounds
- Funding for languages and cultures other than English (including sign language)
- Funding for isolation
Presidents surrounding this topic:
After searching for presidents there really isn't many posters surrounding the ideas that we do have equal rights and that things are equal, by creating a poster surrounding equalities I am going to be creating something new from a new perspective that hasn't been done much before...
My research has really explained that New Zealand law gives everyone an equal chance in primary schooling, yes with some people at schooling facilities which aren't as high as other places but everyone has the right to free education and everyone must attend schooling in NZ.
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