2 x Articles 27/5/21 - Solar panels, Education

[Kiwi Frontline]

SOLAR PANEL TEST FOR MAORI ENERGY NEEDS

The first 15 initiatives totalling $2.8 million have been identified from a $14 million, four year fund for renewable energy projects for Māori housing.

Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods says the projects will provide insights and data on how to best deploy renewable energy technologies to both combat energy hardship and increase renewables generation.....

www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/Mjc0MTk/Paakiwaha/WNEWS-26.05:-Solar-panel-test-for-Maori-energy-needs

[Kiwi Frontline]

GOVERNMENT INVESTS TO GROW MĀORI MEDIUM EDUCATION

Funding in this year’s Māori Budget package to build and expand schools delivering Māori Medium Education will ensure more ākonga can access quality classrooms and learning facilities, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis said today.

“This funding will allow more Māori ākonga to learn in Te Reo Māori - and not just learn in immersion but learn in safe, dry, comfortable classrooms which will lead to better learning outcomes,” Kelvin Davis said.

Māori Ministers visited the future site of Te Pūtahi Māori o Manurewa today, to celebrate a more than $91 million investment, made up of $77 million in new capital and $14 million in associated operating funding, for Māori Medium School Property, announced by the Government last week.....

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/government-invests-grow-m%C4%81ori-medium-education