http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/7526176/Govt-launches-plan-for-vulnerable-children - Schools will be asked to identify younger siblings who should be in early childhood education as part of a drive to identify vulnerable children.  

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/7513835/ERO-drops-decile-ratings-from-reports -The decile rating of schools has been scrapped from Education Review Office reports.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/7433734/Schools-National-Standards-results-to-go-online  -Schools are to have their National Standards results published on a Government website.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7416869/Cost-bar-keeps-fibre-dream-out-of-classrooms  - Of the 176 schools connected to ultra-fast broadband only eight use the "unaffordable" service.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/7398553/Charter-schools-could-employ-unregistered-teachers  - Decision to allow unregistered teachers to work in charter schools causes outrage.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/7366998/Hungry-children-fed-by-teachers  - School staff in the Waikato are forking out their own food and money so students don't go hungry, according to new research into school food programmes in the region

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/7324058/School-exclusions-hit-Maori-Pasifika-boys-hardest  - Maori and Pasifika boys in lower decile schools are being lost to the education system - struck off the roll for bad behaviour.