Photo / Mark MitchellNational Party education spokesman Paul Goldsmith says the inquiry will look into effective efforts to counteract the problem. Photo / Mark MitchellBy Jane Patterson, RNZMPs have launched an inquiry into what has been described as New Zealand's truancy crisis. Parliament's education committee says school attendance has been dropping since 2015 across "all regions, all ethnicities, all deciles and all year levels". "There are also large inequities in school attendance: students in lower decile schools are much less likely to attend school regularly," the committee said. Terms of reference• Investigate the long-term trends and determinants of student attendance, engagement, and non-enrolment over the past 20 years.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 08, 2021 03:33 UTC