The legacy of the Hipkins/Tinetti Education Leadership

Labour delayed the release of the Term 2 attendance data until after the election. It came out yesterday.

Some low-lights:

- Only 47% of students came to school regularly in term 2 this year. an improvement on the same term last year, but one of the worst figures on record.
- 12.5% of students were chronically absent in term 2, meaning they had attended 70…