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Room for Improvement - Current New Zealand housing policies and their implications for our children.

30 Sep 2003
In-depth analysis of the background and consequences of the housing reforms of the 1990s in New Zealand.
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Our Children: The Priority for Policy (Second Edition, 2003)

30 Mar 2003
The first official publication of the Child Poverty Action Group, Our Children: The Priority for Policy, was published in early 2001. This new edition updates Our Children and reflects on the events and progress of the past two years.
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The irony of the NCEA: How compulsory exam fees prevent the achievement of students from poor families

10 Feb 2003
The findings of in-depth interviews with 11 low decile schools about the impact NCEA exam fees had on their students. While there was unanimous support amongst schools for the NCEA as a national qualification, the report concludes that many students in the poorest areas were disadvantaged and discouraged from completing the cornerstone qualification because of the high levels of fees.
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A study of student transience in South Auckland primary schools

5 Feb 2003
A report prepared by housing expert Alan Johnson, on the scale of transience in South Auckland, one of the poorest areas of New Zealand.The results of the survey suggest that in South Auckland the equivalent to a middle sized New Zealand primary school shifts every week of the school year. This impacts on almost a third of all low decile school children.
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