Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 5, 2016 6:56:34 GMT 12
Is there race-based skulduggery going on in Hastings?
TWO MINISTERS AND A KURA
A stoush between a retired principal and the government over the provision of a new primary school for the Hastings suburb of Havelock North stepped up a notch at the weekend with the National Party MP for Tukituki blaming the Labour Party.
Frustrated by a continued lack of response from both Tukituki MP Craig Foss and Education Minister Hekia Parata, the retired principal, Malcolm Dixon, yesterday launched a website www.schoolforhavelocknorth.co.nz to fight for the new primary school that was promised in 2010.
Mr Foss, who is also Minister for small business, veterans’ affairs, and statistics, and Associate Minister of immigration and transport, responded by trying to label the drive for a new school as a “Labour Party campaign”, adding that he “continued to work hard to achieve results for young people”.
After requests by the Havelock North community, in 2010 the Government agreed there was a need for a new primary school and bought the 2.83ha Arataki Motor Camp site.
Yet, as a bolt out of the blue in May of last year, Ms Parata announced that the former Arataki Holiday Park will become the site of the full immersion Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Wananga Whare Tapere o Takitimu. (See Kura proceeds as schools struggle)…..
Read Mike Butler's full article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/mike-butler-two-ministers-and-kura.html#more
TWO MINISTERS AND A KURA
A stoush between a retired principal and the government over the provision of a new primary school for the Hastings suburb of Havelock North stepped up a notch at the weekend with the National Party MP for Tukituki blaming the Labour Party.
Frustrated by a continued lack of response from both Tukituki MP Craig Foss and Education Minister Hekia Parata, the retired principal, Malcolm Dixon, yesterday launched a website www.schoolforhavelocknorth.co.nz to fight for the new primary school that was promised in 2010.
Mr Foss, who is also Minister for small business, veterans’ affairs, and statistics, and Associate Minister of immigration and transport, responded by trying to label the drive for a new school as a “Labour Party campaign”, adding that he “continued to work hard to achieve results for young people”.
After requests by the Havelock North community, in 2010 the Government agreed there was a need for a new primary school and bought the 2.83ha Arataki Motor Camp site.
Yet, as a bolt out of the blue in May of last year, Ms Parata announced that the former Arataki Holiday Park will become the site of the full immersion Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Wananga Whare Tapere o Takitimu. (See Kura proceeds as schools struggle)…..
Read Mike Butler's full article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/mike-butler-two-ministers-and-kura.html#more