Te Waonui for week ending 18 February 2018

Labour's Māori MPs are confident Māori charter schools will be able to successfully transition into the mainstream education system and remain open; the head of the Education Ministry has told MPs the under-achievement of Maori students is chronic, intractable and systemic, and a Kaitiaki at Parihaka says poor land management and the effects of climate change are to blame for the mass death of eels in a coastal Taranaki stream .