ZB ZB
Live now
Start time
Playing for
End time
Listen live
Listen to NAME OF STATION
Up next
Listen live on
ZB

Labour's school donation scheme will level the playing field - PPTA

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Fri, 21 Jul 2017, 8:03AM
Labour leader Andrew Little at Paraparaumu School. PHOTO/NZME

Labour's school donation scheme will level the playing field - PPTA

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Fri, 21 Jul 2017, 8:03AM

The Labour Party's policy on school donations is being seen as a way to level the playing field.

The party is promising to scrap school donations and give schools $150 per student per year instead.

PPTA president Jack Boyle told Tim Dower it's going to work best if there are other steps that take us back to a free education.

He said it won't completely offset what some schools have levied through donations in the past.

"But at least it's going to level that out a bit, it's going to mean that those whanau, those communities who cannot meet those donation requests, no longer have to."

LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW ABOVE

Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you