The Bill’s key proposals include:

• establishing the New Zealand School Property Agency, responsible for planning, building, maintaining, and administering the school property portfolio
• transferring functions for private schools and school hostels from the Ministry of Education to the Education Review Office (ERO)
• strengthening the system’s response when ERO identifies a school of ‘serious concern’
• improving teaching workforce regulation and the administration of the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand
• strengthening curriculum settings
• updating provisions for attendance exemptions
• enabling the Minister to mandate participation in education system monitoring studies such as PISA
• allowing New Zealand Qualifications Authority to include micro-credentials in reporting requirements
• supporting the next stage of the charter school model.