A personal message from Nicola Toki, Chief Executive of Forest & Bird. Submissions close tomm on the Govt's new Fast-track Approvals Bill to override environmental protections. Join 1000s of Kiwis who've said 'No' to this attack on nature and democracy: forestandbird.org.nz/petitions/figh…

“All primary school children in London will enjoy free school meals for another four years if Sadiq Khan is re-elected mayor”

Excellent stuff. Imagine if we had national priorities like this? standard.co.uk/news/london/sa…

What it’s like to be made redundant by the Ministry of Education thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-04…

Imagine thinking that the needs of landlords and other wealthy NZers are more important than speech and language therapy and educational supports for kids with disabilities, refugees, and migrant kids.

Teaching my first History course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this student

University faculty can connect with this initiative to donate expertise to the students of Gaza.

608,000 Palestinian students remain in everyday peril and have been denied their right to education. Please read and consider contributing.

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In the past hour an Israeli drone fired a missile into a group of children in a playground. 11 children have been killed with more injured.

Hani Mahmoud reporting.

#Tautoko '“This is a dark day for Kiwi kids. A third of the Government’s cuts directly affect our children.' nzpol labour.org.nz/news-release_d…

The brutal and rushed nature of the Government’s spending cuts have been exposed with two critical agencies supporting children, and young people proposing to shed 1012 jobs.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/4b1aU0t

❗️MEDIA RELEASE: Large scale cuts at education ministry will have negative impacts on schools and children❗️
nzeiteriuroa.org.nz/about-us/media…

This is utterly devastating and will have far reaching consequences, not just for the affected staff and their families, but for education and children. I can't stop crying for my former colleagues at MoE and for the state of our country 💔😭

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Devastating news for staff working with some of our most vulnerable children today. The people losing their jobs at Oranga Tamariki and the Ministry of Education do amazing work. They have homes and families too. Once again we see how wrong this government’s priorities are.

Feeling for our colleagues within Oranga Tamariki today. There are many critiques that can and are made against OT on the daily (I've made some of them myself), yet my experience has been that amidst all the work that is needed to reform this system there are so many amazing...

Due to the disestablishment of my position at the NZ Ministry of Ed, I am actively seeking new opportunities. As an educator and researcher with over two decades of experience, I bring expertise in curriculum design, user experience, product development, and 1/

Included in 447 job losses at Oranga Tamariki announced today is almost its entire Evidence Centre. I guess this means the govt is just going to be winging it with our most vulnerable children from now on? 🙃

Over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned. More than one million Palestinian women and girls in Gaza have almost no access to food or safe water. UN Women unwomen.org/en/news-storie…

I saw videos today of people being dug up from the courtyard of a hospital where they’d been executed. Meanwhile, in America, people who try to say something against that are treated like this:

The health system in Gaza did not collapse, it was methodically destroyed by Israel