Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 26/9/24

Learning our sums from Stanford: $30m (for maths teaching) minus $30m (from te reo training) equals a new education initiative

Associate Education Minister David Seymour – committed to toughening up on the truancy that burgeoned when Labour was running the country – was encouraged by data released today which show increased school attendance in Term 2 of 2024. The numbers he highlighted show 53.2 per cent of students regularly attending school, an increase of 6.1 percentage points compared to the same term last year.

Hmm. Only around half of students regularly go to school.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 27/6/24

Tougher sentences for criminals are in the offing – and Goldsmith highlights crime stats to justify law-and-order crackdown

The government continued beating the law-and-order drum over the past 24 hours, during a week in which it introduced a Bill to restore the Three Strikes sentencing law, announced the deployment of more Police on the beat in Auckland’s Central Business District, and introduced action to tackle youth crime in the form of a new declaration for young offenders to ensure they face tougher consequences and are better supported to turn their lives around.