Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford spoke to media from a school in East Auckland.
It comes as from this term, a new national reporting framework will see parents receive standardised report updates on their children’s progress in reading, writing and maths across primary and intermediate schools.
The changes, being promoted by Stanford, introduce nationally consistent assessment and reporting “regardless of which school their child attends”.
Under the changes, parents of students in Years 0–10 will receive reports with one of five progress descriptors describing learning progress in subjects, and an explanation of why that descriptor was chosen and how parents can support their kids’ next learning steps.