<h4>Naming and shaming schools and then pitting them against each other in a competitive, profit-driven environment is a failed recipe for improving education, NZEI Te Riu Roa says.</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">NZEI president Lynda Stuart says the NZ Initiative&#8217;s newly released recommendations for addressing school failure were fundamentally flawed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Working collaboratively between and within schools for the benefit of children makes a difference – not pitting schools against schools and teachers against teachers with the threat of being turned into charter schools or or sacked if they don’t meet a set target,” she said.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“What we need is better equity funding to supported disadvantaged children, strong and open collaboration, and better support for principals, as highlighted in our recent health and wellbeing survey.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The NZ Institute&#8217;s report compares our schools unfavourably against the charter-dominated school systems in the US and UK, even though our system is performing far more successfully overall.</p>

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