NZ Initiative’s Free-Market Agenda: Public Housing and Education in focus
The NZ Initiative’s market-led reforms on housing and education spark debate. Critics link ideas to broader free-market networks. What’s at stake?
charter schools
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While the Left fiddles, the Right beats their war-drum
While the Left has been fiddling about with much gnashing of teeth and tears of concern over the right of two Canadian neo-fascists to speak at an Auckland City council venue – National’s focus has been laser-like at regaining power in 2020.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Free to choose? Not even close!
Well the big announcement has been made and charter schools are to close (sort of). The latest of National’s ideological experiments is to be consigned to the dustbin of history, where it belongs. In a previous blog I went through the performance shortcomings of the New Zealand experiment. For some, though, the performance issues do not matter. It is the ‘freedom to choose’ that is important.
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Charter schools – using the poor to advance the agenda of the rich
The ACT Party were out on the weekend with 100 people supporting their Auckland march to oppose the closure of charter schools.
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MUST READ: Charter Schools in a Post-Truth Era
For many on the neo-liberal Right, education is a business not a public good and therefore should be no different to electricity supply (semi-privatised); Air New Zealand (semi-privatised – again); or a whole host of other services and assets that were once owned by the tax-payer but have been sold off over the last thirty years.