Charter schools policy development
Background papers on policy development for partnership schools | kura hourua (charter schools) are published here.
Ongoing policy development
Policy development after the original implementation of the charter school model.
- Aide Memoire: PEP offer to Round 3 and 4 Partnership Schools and draft letter from the Ministry to all sponsors to update on the Contract Review [PDF, 3.2 MB]
- Discussion Document: Partnership Schools Expansion Funding [PDF, 1 MB]
- Briefing Note: Partnership School Kura Hourua Contract Accountability Enhancements [PDF, 1 MB]
- Discussion Document: Potential Change in Establishment Property Funding for Partnership Schools [PDF, 920 KB]
- Briefing Note: Lease costs compared to Partnership School Property Funding — Update [PDF, 688 KB]
- Briefing Note: Profile of students attending Partnerships Schools | Kura Hourua in 201 [PDF, 179 KB]
- Discussions Document: Cashed-up funding for Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua for centrally funded support [PDF, 696 KB]
- Discussion Document: Priority Learners for Partnership Schools [PDF, 1.7 MB]
- Discussions Document: Priority Learners for Partnerships Schools – Further Advice [PDF, 1.3 MB]
- Briefing Note: Partnership School Property Funding – Formulae Comparisons [PDF, 922 KB]
- Cabinet Paper: Selection of Round 4 Partnership Schools Kura Hourua (PSKH) to proceed into contract negotiations, approval process for Round 5 and minor operational policy changes [PDF, 5.8 MB]
- Briefing for meeting on Partnership Schools on 16 February 2015 [PDF, 98 KB]
- Education Report: Extending Eligibility for Gateway Funding to PSKH [PDF, 222 KB]
- Education Report: Further Advice on Tertiary Education Institutions as Sponsors of PSKH [PDF, 5.5 MB]
- Cabinet Paper: Further application rounds for partnership schools [PDF, 1 MB]
Establishment of a support entity for partnership schools
- Education Report: Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua Sponsor Support [PDF, 2.8 MB]
- Education Report: Advice on establishing a Support Entity for Partnership Schools [PDF, 607 KB]
- Briefing: Options and process for identifying a suitable Support Entity [PDF, 201 KB]
- Education Report: Proposal from E Tipu E Rea [PDF, 2.4 MB]
- Funding agreement with E Tipu E Rea [PDF, 307 KB]
Martin Jenkins evaluation 2014–2017
Phase 1 report – Education Counts(external link)
Phase 2 report – Education Counts(external link)
Phase 3 report – Education Counts(external link)
- February 2017: Release of Second Annual Interim Evaluation Report — PSKH (Ed Report) [PDF, 9.7 MB]
- Education Report: Release of the Martin Jenkins Innovation Evaluation Report on Partnership Schools [PDF, 769 KB]
- Follow-up on the Authorisation Board’s concerns re PSKH Evaluation [PDF, 272 KB]
- Authorisation Board correspondence about the evaluation [PDF, 154 KB]
- Evaluation plan: Partnership School | Kura Hourua policy [PDF, 3.3 MB]
- Education Report: Multi-year Evaluation of Partnership Schools Kura Hourua Policy — Summary of Findings Across Years [PDF, 675 KB]
Funding model and contract review 2015
- Cabinet Minute: Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua — monitoring and evaluation, proposed new funding model, operational review, and further application round [PDF, 182 KB]
- Cabinet Paper: Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua — monitoring and evaluation, proposed new funding model, operational review, and further application round [PDF, 1 MB]
- Education Report: Proposed Changes to Partnership Schools Funding Model [PDF, 402 KB]
- Education Report: Partnership Schools Draft Agreement [PDF, 203 KB]
- Briefing: Summary of advice on changes to the PSKH funding model, application process, and timeline [PDF, 393 KB]
- Briefing: PSKH Contract Review — Options for known issues [PDF, 267 KB]
- Briefing: PSKH funding model review: further advice on the teaching and operating rate [PDF, 636 KB]
- Briefing: PSKH — Cash for Buildings and Lease Cost Sensitivity [PDF, 197 KB]
- Briefing: Further advice on Partnership schools property funding [PDF, 806 KB]
- Education report: PSKH Work programme update — funding model, contract review and round three applications [PDF, 473 KB]
- Working paper: Scope of PSKH funding model review [PDF, 299 KB]
- Briefing: Process and timeline for immediate Partnership Schools work programme [PDF, 795 KB]
- Current PSKH resourcing model [PDF, 563 KB]
Key Cabinet and Ministerial decisions on the establishment of partnership schools
- Education Report: Initial Discussion on Charter Schools [PDF, 2.3 MB]
- Education Report: Background overview of Section 156 schools [PDF, 4 MB]
- Education Report: Initial advice on Charter Schools [PDF, 2.4 MB]
- Education Report: Establishing the Charter Schools Working Group [PDF, 538 KB]
- Cabinet Paper: Establishing the NZ Model of Charter School Working Group [PDF, 1.3 MB]
- Cabinet Paper: Developing and Implementing a New Zealand Model of Charter School [PDF, 3.5 MB]
- Regulatory Impact Assessment: Developing and Implementing a New Zealand Model [PDF, 2.7 MB]
- Partnership School Kura Hourua Authorising and Monitoring Report Back [PDF, 1.4 MB]
- Cabinet Paper: eSourcing Partnership Schools [PDF, 4.1 MB]
- Partnership Schools Kura Hourua Authorisation Board Appointments [PDF, 619 KB]
- Education Report Tertiary Education Institutions as Sponsors of PSKH [PDF, 174 KB]
- Education Report: Determining at risk payments for Partnership schools — part 1 [PDF, 2.6 MB]
- Education Report: Determining at risk payments for Partnership schools — part 2 [PDF, 1.9 MB]
- Further Advice on at risk payments for Partnership Schools [PDF, 155 KB]
- Education Report: Implementing Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua decisions [PDF, 1 MB]
- Education Report: Performance management [PDF, 1.3 MB]
- Education Report: Performance management appendix [PDF, 313 KB]
- Education Report: Some issues in developing a performance management system — part 1 [PDF, 3.2 MB]
- Education Report: Some issues in developing a performance management system — part 2 [PDF, 3.4 MB]
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