Mike Butler: Kura proceeds as schools struggle

A very public stoush is going on in Hastings over a plan to build a new Maori immersion school in the predominantly non-Maori suburb of Havelock North while primary schools there are bursting at the seams.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is pushing the plan while a recently retired long-time primary school principal and first-term Hastings district councilor Malcolm Dixon is leading the opposition.