The Government is delivering over $100 million in investment through Budget 2025 to ensure more tamariki Māori thrive at school.
“This Government is firmly committed to properly resourcing our bilingual education system and lifting achievement for Māori students. Our Budget 25 investment delivers on the commitments through our Māori Education Action Plan, which takes a practical approach to strengthening outcomes for ākonga Māori,” Education Minister Erica Stanford says.
This investment encompasses:
This investment encompasses:
- $10 million to launch a new Virtual Learning Network (VLN) for STEM education (Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics) subjects in Kaupapa Māori and Māori Medium education settings, addressing the shortage of qualified STEM teachers proficient in both subject matter and te reo Māori. This will fund 15 kaiako to deliver online STEM education to up to 5,577 Year 9-13 ākonga.
- $4.5 million to develop comprehensive new te reo matatini and STEM curriculum resources and teacher supports for approximately 2,000 Year 9–13 learners in Kaupapa Māori and Māori Medium education. For the first time ever, students will be able to study Shakespeare, international literature, and iconic New Zealand works, including The Bone People entirely in te reo Māori.
- $2.1 million to develop a new Māori Studies subject for Years 11–13, offering students to deepen their understanding of Māori cultural practices, narratives, knowledge, and language. This new learning area will be developed byMātauranga Māori experts and will support learners to grow their knowledge of Māori culture, narratives, philosophies, Mātauranga and language.
- $14 million into training and support for up to 51,000 teachers/kaiako in Years 0-13 schools to learn te reo Māori and tikanga as appropriate benefiting over 560,000 students.
- An additional $60m of ring-fenced funding for Māori Medium and Kaupapa Māori Education property, which will deliver up to 50 new classrooms to support the network, providing access to immersion schooling for approximately an additional 1,100 ākonga.
- $4.8 million to appoint seven new curriculum advisors for Kaupapa Māori and Māori medium education to support kaiako in implementing the redesigned Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, including Rangaranga Reo ā-Tā, Poutama Pāngarau, and Hihira Weteoro, benefiting over 27,000 ākonga.
- $4.1 million to support the sustainability and data capability of the Kohanga Reo Network.
- $3.5 million to support WAI 3310 Waitangi Tribunal Education Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry.
Erica Stanford is the Minister of Education and Minister of Immigration. She has been the National MP for East Coast Bays since the 2017 election. This article was first published HERE
56 comments:
Funding the "corporate apartheid agenda". That's "democracy" folks.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, along comes more race based funding from National.
The $3.5 million for Waitangi tribunal inquiry is just obscene.
$4.8 million for 7 curriculum advisors is a disgusting scam.
No funding or initiatives to address the fact that boys are not achieving as well as girls in most subjects though.
Stanford may as well be Labour now.
So much for rolling back racism, millions and millions to further propagate it 🤦♂️
So many of these racist Maori programmes are of very low quality and even worse they come with a whole raft of brainwashing propaganda that is creating a attitudinal timebomb that this countru will live to regret. Just examine the life history of the younger members of TPM in the House and see how little real education they have actually had. For the state to be not just funding this but expanding the funding is a national disgrace and a national disaster.
How much of this spending will be used on making up all the new te reo words needed to teach stem subjects?
I truly am over National . This maori ethnicity dividion of NZ is apalling . I will struggle to give my electorate vote to National in 2026
Feels more like funding for more indoctrination centres for tomorrow’s activists. Will it really enhance the success of these students, or will it just widen the divide?
Hold it please National, this is very light on credibility . There are only 800,000 primary and secondary students in New Zealand that have education services NOW . Why is an extra separate $100million taxpayer appropriation dedicated to Maori students and for ( really? ) Shakespeare studies in Maori . Spare the blatant BS.
The hard part for spending on racist Education is that it is donated by taxpayers only . Education does not earn income to subsidise the huge government funding . This is contrary to National manifesto last election. This is serious apartheid under our watch.
Is this Minister credible? One thinks not.
Seymour is correct, funding should be colourblind.
Just when you think National cannot fail us in worse ways. Wow, this is just so disappointing.
I cannot understand National. At the last election maori conceded that they have done very well from National over the decades. But maori are not a grateful or rational race and the votes reaped would have been negligible. Maori do poorly at school; in that light passing the time on an obsolete largely invented stone age hobby language is absurd. Do the allocations allow for the enormous English as Second Language effort expended adjusting immersion victims for real life off the dole? Of course stem teachers with te reo ability are rare. The rational objective no wasted effort attitude characteristic of successful stem teachers is the very opposite of the woolly subjective other world attitude of the typical te reo enthusiast. The emphasis on matters maori and the prospect of being forever bombarded with it discourages successful stem and other objective types from the profession. Shakespeare in maori is fine for a novel stage show but taught seriously is just a mockery of Shakespeare. The sums expended are preposterous. Only a fortnight ago we were reminded of $130 million to move a mere five Insurgency Coordination Centres. I trust the matuaranga maori for year 11-13 will not be inflicted on all but just those aimimg for a career in insurgency subversion. National seems determined to make itself the minor party in an Act NZ First coalition.
UTTER DRIVEL..... The Minister is a product of our failed education system which went off the rails first with "Tomorrow's Schools", but worse, then got caught in Critical Race Theory of the 80s on. Erica knows nothing else.... Auckland University required total regurgitation of CRT by students in humanities - including the subjects she studied, b r a i n w a s h e d ... Critical thinking did not gain you marks! Don't think for yourself!
Just further confirmation that my decision to retire elsewhere was fully justified.
I remember some hair-brained social pseudoscience academic suggesting that we teach science in indigenous languages in PNG when I was working there 30-odd years ago. Since there are hundreds of vernaculars spoken there, I suggested to my colleagues that we teach science to our students (secondary teaching trainees) in TokPisin (Pidgin). We just about cracked up as we started nutting together an explanation of the structure of the atom in that lingo.
The serious message here is that, at the global level, science is just about inseparable from English, the language in which almost all scientific research of any consequence is presented. Fluency in English is almost as important as competence in cutting-edge science in today's world.
I'll bet you didn''t think of that, did you, Erica.
NOTE POOR SPELLING>>>>> quoting Min of Ed... An additional $60m of ring-fenced funding for Mori Medium and Kaupapa Mori Education
That's sealed it.I regret voting national and never will again.
English is by far the most difficult European language to learn to become literate in being at least twice as difficult as any other and yet it is the world's international language .
Maori are being severely restricted in their education if they are not being educated well in the rich vocabulary of English, which requires thousands upon thousands of hours . They will be prevented from finding good work in other countries . What Erica is doing is insanity , and also disadvantaging Maori .They will be stuck in this country , restricted in job choices and handicapped by being indoctrinated into their hobby language, deceived into believing it gives them extra mana or self esteem or whatever.
Name just one other country that accepts Maori as an alternative to English. This country's standards of living will drastically decline as those desiring work or building businesses will depart overseas to countries where taxes are not so high , from supporting all those Maori with limited work choices who are on welfare from being less competent in English. At present we have the longest tail of underachievement in the Western World . The number with learning difficulties particularly in learning to read in any language will increase even more.
From my experience few adult non Maori are excited about learning Te Reo , since learning any language is an immense amount of work if you wish to become fluent in it.
Has anyone in the National party actually thought this through ? Of the multi millions of books published and continuing to be published in English, especially in highly specialized areas what proportion can be realistically translated into Te Reo?
Luxon’s team just signed their death warrant. They are a disgrace. Heaven help NZ if their ineptitude lets the Labour disasters back in.
It's not investment for one race to thrive. It is investment that will ensure division continues and becomes even more ingrained.
Please do not... ACT this time.
Luxon - totally unmasked. No way back now.
What an appalling waste of money on a racist basis.
Why is Stanford treating Maori as though Polynesian DNA is a handicap ?
How does she justify finding money for them rather than for the rest of the population ?
Nothing that is being taught here will empower any of these part Maori kids to do better in life.
They would be better off learning in English because that is how the rest of the world operates.
As for learning recently made up on the fly Maori culture - idiotic gobbley gook !
Why can we see it but Luxon and Willis, and Stanford can't ?
Just read through the above statement and see if any of it would make any sense in any other First World country.
First rate indoctrination into how to fail because of Maori DNA.
Have we elected politicians who are worse than the previous Ardern / Hipkins government ?
Bring on an intelligent Trump type person who can lead this country properly.
Just to make it crystal clear:-
This system was used in South Africa. It was politely named "separate development".
It's Afrikaner name is APARTHEID !!!
HERE IN NEW ZEALAND RIGHT NOW !!
I note Steve Maharey former Labour minister and former Massey University vice -chancellor suggested that those foreign students being expelled from Harvard University by Trump should be made welcome at NZ Universities.
Will they all have to do Maori indoctrination courses a la Auckland University I wonder ?
Erica, Erica, Erica please! We are all New Zealanders. Read your history....not the manufactured one. You are supposed to be Education Minister. I can tell you for sure as someone who has travelled. There is no advantage for part-Maori to become immersed in Maorification. Once you leave these shores you need English skills, IT skills, maths skills and a certain degree of worldliness. In the US people regard Maori as akin to New Guineans.
All the above comments are correct. Stanford is now in the process of condemning Māori youth to a prison of non-achievement for, perhaps, their whole lives. This is very sad for them, and very bad for NZ.
Joining the dots :
Stanford is openly saying that it's acceptable to be racist with regard to Maori.
Without doubt, half the prison population is Maori, and they are the people who despite the light weight policing and judicial system are incarcerated for their crimes.
Thousands more , especially young Maori have just been told that there are no consequences for " minor" crimes including less than $1000.
I have witnessed Maori refusing to pay or return goods in commercial situations.
Therefore, from now on I feel entitled to ask if my potential customers are Maori, or make a judgment based on their name, and refuse service as I'm likely to be ripped off.
Now, try and prosecute me for my racist policies.
The source is Scoop Independent News ( https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2505/S00267/supporting-more-tamariki-maori-to-flourish.htm ) but I cannot find the press release on the Beehive website ( https://www.beehive.govt.nz/releases ) ?
National and Labour have different coloured logos so there's a way to tell one from the other.
I have been really impressed with Erica
But this is just wrong
Listen to the next deputy PM Erica, no race based funding! just funding for NZs, anything else is racist
Act has had my vote many times and will be getting it next time too
And, in fact, Minister Stanford is being consistent with her remark on Q+A same time ago when she said : "Iwi are our main partner".
NOBODY..... that is - NO - BODY - in Nats is capable of Critical Thinking now .. [ie reasoning pros/cons coming to logical conclusions]. All are products of NZEdjicashin over the last decades. Homework Exercise Erica, re-write your rubbish with counter arguments. Yer dunno wot they R? Time you found out ! Nats will not have my vote again!!!!!
Many are from the trouble spots of the Middle East where terrorism thrives and anti -semitic.
Let's get real: on the issue of its super-woke universities captured by CRT, the USA has done its homework in depth. It knows why a significant number - not all - of these people are a danger to national security.
Ms Stanford is also Immigration Minister. Are the checks on entrants thorough?
Like everyone else in education Sanford assumes the public know the jargon. Incredibly she failed to mention pedagogy .I like a myriad others will have to spend 1/2 hour on Google fathoming akonga, Kupapa maori, kohanga reo, kaiako, te reo matatini, te Merautangu oAotearoa, Poutama Pangarau, Rangaranga Reo aTa, Hihira Weteoro. There was an enlightened time when the purpose of language was communication, not political separatism. I know what children and maori children means but exactly what are tamariki? Do they have tp be trace maori?
Is this a joke?
and a National Party initiative!!!!!!
Those who support this will still vote LGTPM bloc.
Nats trying to sway opposition voters won,t work .They want Nats gone
Logging in just now, I could not believe the high number of comments about this given it was posted around midday and then I read the first sentence. Flippin' 'eck! Now I've read it all, small wonder people are incensed, I sure am. National have clearly lost the plot, are they desperately trying to out do Dutton? Well, they are succeeding - in spades!
I’m beyond disgusted. New Zealand will soon become a 3rd world country.
Sanford is a complete idiot. This article is written in pigeon English. Is this our future? And you wonder why people are leaving here in droves?
Unfortunately, no.
My comment is very simple. Everyone go to YouTube & find the website McBlog/ Family First - and find the videos posted on the NZ Education system, that have emanated since our current Min. of Ed has sat in the " hot seat ". The one topic that is prevalent with Bob McCroskey (host of ) is the topic of sex education in schools - and the Minister when put in the " hot seat" stated it
" would be looked at ". It has - and been re-issued, with little change.
SO here is a lady as Min. of Education allows 5 year old's to be taught about sex? Within the scope of what Bob was looking at, there was the question - " Who is doing the teaching"?
Sadly we are seeing females gain a power in politics and we are then presented with just how they are unable to manage, not only here in NZ, but also Australia, America and at the moment England.
Also when you read the article and subsequent comments, please keep in mind that this lady has recently been " caught" using unofficial communications systems in regards to data, either for her portfolio and or other cabinet papers, yet the PM literally gave " her a free pass", for those indiscretion's.
Oh well if Hilary Clinton got away with, I suppose Erica Stanford thought she could do the same thing.
Yes, 39 comments here as I look at this now and we’re all pretty seriously annoyed. Most people I know are seriously annoyed. Time for National and Erica to read the room.
Is it too much to expect this to be written in English? Or at least italicising the Maori words followed by their English translation in brackets? Most of us immigrants filled up the INZ forms in English and were only asked to pass IELTS...
Hey Erica, I'm avaliable to preach some make it up as you go te reo, and fictional culture for the bargain price of only $490k pa (that's undercutting the other applicants, but sorry I don't have a moko)
Erica, you have been conned by these self important plastic Maori ! They are literally laughing at you all the way to the bank, then they are going off into a huddle to create another cunning scheme to extract more Treaty dollars.
We thought that we were electing clear headed responsible people to run NZ - how bitterly disappointing.
More millions of dollars peed away again and continuing into the foreseeable future.
Are you forgetting that Comrade Ardern spent $330M on getting the covid message out to Maori in made up te reo (and every last one of them understood the English version)
Enough of this bullshit !!!
Unbelievable! I am speechless at the naïveté and outright idiocy of throwing money at a raciallly based cause. I erred 2023 about voting National, but did. It won’t happen again!
In her promotional article Erica Stanford states - “Each of these investments aim to drive student achievement for our tamariki Maōri so they thrive in the classroom.”
Is this separation of education funding simply furthering and even promoting racial division in NZ? Should we not saying "so all our children can thrive in the classroom!"
Am I right or wrong?
This is educational stupidity on steroids!
No hang on. This is National continuing their appeasement and privilege agenda!
“ We are laser-focused “ on doing away with Maorification—- a quote from PM Luxon . Not a word of truth in it . These moves by Erica Stanford to force ALL our younger generations to become bilingual is nothing but another absolutely irrational move of appeasement of Maori . Maori was made an official language ( which English never has been ) in 1987 SOLELY to ensure facilities would be made available to enable those who ‘wished to learn Maori’ to do so — and I have no problem with that original intention. The same applies to sign language . But to force all our younger generations to become bilingual is a blatant nonsense. WHY ? At the time of the Treaty of Waitangi the Maori language had no more than 2500 words . Everything since has been adapted from English . Language is about effective communication . That is all . English is the widest spoken language in the world by a long , long way and is the official international language of science , law, commerce, air traffic control, diplomatic communication etc etc . Maori is NOT spoken outyNew Zealand anywhere and is spoken by relatively very few in New Zealander . This move by Erica Stanford is a DUMB move by any evaluation . A serious waste of scarce , very valuable educational time , opportunity and resources.
Hugh Perrett
I'm a little surprised that so many seem surprised and shocked by Stanford's race-based funding, for the precursor of it is well signalled by what this current Govt. proposes to introduce by way of the draft Education and Training Amendment Bill (No.2).
As I've said elsewhere, among other things it proposes:
“127 Paramount objective of boards in governing schools...
(2) To meet the paramount objective, the board must meet the following supporting objectives: ...
(b) to ensure that the school uses good quality assessment and aromatawai information to monitor and evaluate students’ progress and achievement, including any assessment or aromatawai specified in a foundation curriculum policy statement: ...
(e) to ensure that the school gives effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including by—
(i) achieving equitable outcomes for Māori students; and
(ii) working to ensure that its plans, policies, and teaching and learning programmes reflect local tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori, and te ao Māori; and (iii) taking all reasonable steps to make instruction available in tikanga Māori and te reo Māori: ..."
Notwithstanding the virtually impossible nonsense of achieving "equitable outcomes", the above will require a very significant amount of funding, not the least of which will no doubt go on consultation and mana whenua involvement, ensuring the teaching resources meet these purported needs.
My questions being: Why are we legislating for such blatant mono-cultural stone age ideology and, if that's appropriate (which it isn't), why then to the exclusion of all others? Where is the justification and proof for such will produce the desired outcomes, and where is the public mandate for its introduction? And, aren't our public institutions supposed to be secular, reflecting the majority view of today's society, not to mention what’s proposed breaches our Bill of Rights Act? And given the statistically proven proclivities of Māori to break the common laws of this land, wouldn't it be better that the emphasis of study was on those laws rather than tikanga, which appears to be little more than a moveable feast of protocols based on mysticism and variable tribal beliefs which, given history, clearly didn't work so well for the proponents of it in any event?
And, what a nonsense to believe that this immersion in all things Maori will prepare and enhance the knowledge and useful skillsets of all children for the future, yet alone that cohort of Maori identifying children of today and in the future, who in the vast predominance of instances will all have significantly more and expanding ‘other' (non-Maori) ancestry.
This seems to be all founded on the belief of Maori wonderfulness - that their pre-colonial existence is some form of paragon to aspire to, when in reality it was a harsh, brutal, stone age, tribal existence, where both depravation and deprivation were regular life occurrences.
Maori children today are not achieving because of their typically dysfunctional, single-parent, welfare-dependent, non-aspirational and unsupportive home life and that has very little to do with a lack of exposure to tikanga, te reo, and both maturanga and te ao Maori.
Stanford and National are very much deluded if they think what they propose will improve child educational outcomes, but the indoctrination that transpires will almost certainly further divide our nation and take us down the path to full-blown apartheid and economic ruination.
And yes, the current Education and Training Act 2020 legislation is worse and indeed needs to be changed, but not to what’s now proposed.
You have until 11.59pm, Thursday, 12 June 2025 if you want to make a submission on this Bill here: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCEDUW_SCF_8826C9D4-8F6E-4018-CDF7-08DD758B2660/education-and-training-amendment-bill-no-2#RelatedAnchor
I totally agree with all that Peter says with respect to dysfunctional homes.
I am, also concerned about the fact we in NZ ,shamefully have the longest tail of underachievement in the Western World,
It is so selfish to concentrate on only the Maori proportion of this tail. . Underachievement is also occurring among all races and concentrating on Te Reo will have little or no impact on those who are non Maori. As I have stated above I don't believe it is the solution for Maori either.
The problem of failure in our schools is the result of adherence to an over all destructive ideology which has cursed the whole of the developed world particularly the English speaking ones.
As I say to those parents from countries of the underdeveloped world ,"It would be best if you sent your children back to your own country where children sit on dirt floors and chant their times tables , do handwriting , spelling and all those things Traditional Education used to do here ". Maori used to achieve equably when we had that system here in NZ.
Anon @ 6:18pm 27 May
Official press release: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/supporting-more-tamariki-m%C4%81ori-flourish
Anon@2.15 - hope that $100M is accounted for in the next Treaty claim settlement? If only!
This a true story. A number of years back when total immersion Maori schooling was getting off the ground an acquaintance of ours placed her daughter in the immersion system for four or five years. When the time came for the daughter to attend secondary school, where the immersion system was not available, problems arose immediately. The teenage girl in English language had the reading ability of a nine-year old. Point, her English language ability had stalled. What might have come about she had carried on through a Maori immersion system?
How many generations of Maori children and maybe others will be condemned to permanent mediocrity? Putting my forecasting hat on, is this what all parties want? A fixed in place, set in concrete, lower socio-economic class. That is what the result will be. Eventually the new Maori method, if it can be termed as such, will affect children of all ethnicities.
At present we have four grandchildren working overseas. They had a certain amount of Maori cultural study imposed on them through their recent schooldays. They have told me that Maori cultural “knowledge” has been of zero use to them in either the work front or in social settings.
Disestablish the Maori language and the haka. Send it all back to the marae and keep it there.
Understand the real purpose of teaching te reo: to ensure that trace Maori have ethnic superiority and political control in Aotearoa (i.e. the future NZ under tribal rule - which looks increasingly certain bar a revolution). Other ethnicities may gain proficiency in te reo -but they will not have the trace Maori ancestry. So they will be second class citizens under tribal rule.
All this extraordinary spending on Maori education !
And then to extend that beyond school to university with the example of the allocated places for Maori - up to 50% of the intake every year.
Then with their course simplified as supposedly Maori have a lesser comprehension of English than all the others including students from other cultures.
Then Maori qualifying with lesser marks than required of every other student.
Absurd and absolutely racist.
Luxon, Willis, Stanford et al, face up to the truth that your racist policies are a failure.
One system for everyone, as prescribed in the Treaty - stop all the false interpretation and appeasement.
Your voters have spoken.
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