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ACT tries to end race-based education

National folds to the woke

Jul 01, 2025
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The other day I wrote about how Erica Stanford has been quietly ushering race-based policy back into New Zealand schools, under the feel-good label of “pastoral care”. Now we learn that while Stanford is pushing things in one direction, the ACT Party has been trying to steer us in another. You can read my original article here:

Erica Stanford sneaks race-based policy back into schools

Matua Kahurangi
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June 26, 2025
Erica Stanford sneaks race-based policy back into schools

Just when you thought National put an end to race-based policies and co-governance in public services, Erica Stanford’s new Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2) makes you wonder if National has completely lost sight of those promises. It reads more like something from the Labour government than the party Kiwis voted in to restore some common sen…

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