“…In a major u-turn Education Minister Hekia Parata says staff pupil ratios will not change.
The planned changes announced in last month’s Budget were to have saved the Government around $174 million over four years.
Parata said the Government had decided not to make the changes after it became clear parents did not accept the change.
“We are reversing the decision.”
She said she had discussed it with Prime Minister John Key and other senior ministers this morning…”
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