The Principals' Federation is giving National's latest education announcement a failed grade.
The organisation says the new policy announced by Christopher Luxon - with its emphasis on the three Rs, reading, writing and arithmetic - is a re-run of the national standards regime of the last National-led government.
Which it says is simply not fit-for-purpose in a diverse society such as New Zealand.
NZPF president Leanne Otene spoke to Corin Dann.
