Did you know that the Education and Workforce select committee is considering the Education and Training Amendment Act (3)?
And did you know that it includes this requirement for appointments to school boards?
- updating the criteria for co-opting and appointing board members to reflect today’s school communities, by adding the genders, sexualities and sexes of the school’s students and of the school community, and disabled students at the school and the school’s disability community.
Education Minister Jan Tinetti mentioned this while speaking on the first reading of the Bill:
The bill also expands and modernises the school board member co-option criteria. School boards must have regard for these criteria when deciding to co-opt a board member. The bill updates the criteria to ensure that boards take into account the genders, sexualities, and sexes of students and school community, as well as the disabled students and the school’s disability…
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