Labour’s Education Strategy: The best way to solve a problem is to hide the data.

At a systemic level education is in crisis in New Zealand. Often this has been sensed but the Ministry/Government work so hard to keep data/rankings/effects of policy from the public that often people can only speak in anecdotes.

Chris Hipkins says that the decline in attendance began in 2015. It did a wee bit – however the decline has been so massive un…