Erica Stanford: Education Minister responds to Labour's plan for education

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive by NZME

Oct 7, 20263:06News & Politics

The Education Minister says Labour's plan to ditch the mandated hour of reading, writing and maths is just 'ridiculous'. Chris Hipkins revealed he'd leave it up to the schools to decide - at last night's TVNZ leaders deb...

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