A promising start

Radio NZ reports:

A Māori-Pasifika boys’ boarding school says they’ve seen a dramatic improvement in student’s literacy since they opened as a charter school at the beginning of this year.

Tipene St Stephens in Auckland was one of eight charter schools to open this year. …

An example of how students had improved, he said, was with spelling.

He said a student might have gone from attempting less than half of a spelling test, with only about a quarter of words correct at the start of the year to six months later attempting all the words and getting more than 60 percent correct.

He said demand for what they were doing was through the roof.

I remind people that Labour and Greens want to ban charter schools