It’s Time to Speak the Truth!

Funding for education is at an all-time high, yet our schooling system is in absolute crisis. Governments have consistently made election pledges to throw money at the issue, but the situation has worsened under their management. We believe that principals and teachers, in conjunction with parents, know what is best for students – not bureaucrats.

You either have special schools or you have excessive bureaucracy. You can't have both.

An exclusive report commissioned by the TPAA found that for every two teachers, there is approximately one bueraucrat. This is the root cause of the key issues within our education system. Read our Green Paper for more details on the current state of the system and how we propose to fix it.

The reality is, mainstream schools simply aren’t equipped to accommodate the needs of the increasing number of students with disabilities. Until we admit that different students require different educational settings, the quality of our schooling will continue to go backward.

To achieve this change, the crooked foundations of our education system must change:

• Return decision-making power back to local schooling communities by making them autonomous
• Have locally elected boards with equal parent and teacher representation
• Allow decisions on matters like student discipline, staffing arrangements, and curriculum to be made by locals that know their school
  
• Parents must have the power to move their children and the school funding follows the child. This gives the power of curriculum and school performance to parents and takes it away from bureaucrats.