Major Impact on Schools
2009 School Staffing Improvements for New Entrants
Operating funding excluding capital charge
• 2008/09 $21.965m
• 2009/10 $52.663m
• 2010/11 $53.608m
• 2011/12 $53.796m
Four Year Total $182.032
Capital funding
• 2008/09 $2.335m
• 2009/10 $7.702m
• 2010/11 $16.681m
• 2011/12 $6.791m
Four Year Total $33.509m
It provides an estimated extra 762 teachers (full-time teacher equivalents - FTTEs) from 2009, and is over and above any extra teachers required to meet roll growth. The funding is for extra teachers, school learning spaces, furniture and equipment and laptops for teachers. It also adds more assessment tools to the electronic Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (e-asTTle) library.
Annual Adjustment to Schools' Operational Funding
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $24.514m
• 2009/10 $49.132m
• 2010/11 $48.928m
• 2011/12 $49.006m
Four Year Total $171.580m This provides for a 5% increase to schools' operational funding effective from 1 January 2009, and includes a component to assist schools with the costs of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The increase is above the projected Consumer Price Index shift of approximately 3.1% in 2008.
The government's total investment in schools' operational funding is $4.7 billion over the next four years.
Laptops for Teachers
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $2.250m
• 2009/10 -
• 2010/11 -
• 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.250m
Additional funding for the Laptops for Teachers scheme allows for further expansion to an already successful scheme.
Non-Enrolled Truancy Service Capacity Increase
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $3.340m
• 2009/10 -
• 2010/11 -
• 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $3.340m
This funding increases the capacity of the Non-Enrolled Truancy Service (NETS) to find non-enrolled students and support them to return to school. It provides extra support while ENROL beds down and the number of non-enrolled students stabilises.
Literacy and Numeracy in Secondary Schools
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $2.068m
• 2009/10 $4.462m
• 2010/11 $3.150m
• 2011/12 $0.756m
Four Year Total $10.436m
This initiative will fund delivery of Literacy and Numeracy professional development programmes to a further 30 secondary schools, with a focus on teachers of students in Years Nine and Ten.
Full-time Moderators for the NCEA Operating funding
• 2008/09 $2.720m
• 2009/10 -
• 2010/11 -
• 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.720m
Budget 2008 provides funding for full-time moderators hired by NZQA to moderate internal assessments of NCEA. Increased moderation will improve the credibility and quality of internal assessment for the NCEA. The amount of internally assessed student work moderated will increase to 10% from 2008. Previously 81,740 samples (3% of internally assessed standards gaining credit) were moderated. Now up to 240,000 samples will be moderated each year.
Property
School Property Business Case 2008/09
Operating funding excluding capital charge
• 2008/09 $5.517m
• 2009/10 $5.444m
• 2010/11 $4.765m
• 2011/12 $5.094m
Four Year Total $20.820m
Capital funding
• 2008/09 $71.000m
• 2009/10 $2.790m
• 2010/11 $0.940m
• 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $74.730m
The additional funding allows for completing the construction of nine new schools announced in 2007/08, construction to start on two new schools, 130 new classrooms (plus five gyms) and modernising existing school property, and an increase in the capacity of the school network (from a property perspective) to accommodate extra students from net migration and population growth areas.
The focus for 2008/09 is on completing property work already approved. Significant investment (over $2.5 billion) over the past seven years has created an opportunity for schools to prioritise and plan work on school buildings. The government now wants to ensure this work is completed.
The state (non-integrated) school sector property portfolio has a capital value of $9.7 billion at 30 June 2007, including $6.3 billion worth of improvements. The total replacement value of the portfolio is approximately $12.5 billion.
Funding for Property at Integrated Schools
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $13.064m
• 2009/10 -
• 2010/11 -
• 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $13.064m
The government recognises that in some areas a new integrated school may provide school spaces which would otherwise have required the building of a state school, and that this accommodation provides offsetting savings to the Crown.
Under agreed policies, the proprietor of state- integrated Aquinas College in Tauranga, the Bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton, will receive 85% of the costs of building a state school of the equivalent size in 2008/09.
The funding is a one-off allocation for building costs only. Ongoing costs associated with property fall under integrated schools' agreements with government.
Special Education
Extra Therapy Support for Some High Needs Students
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $1.243m
• 2009/10 $1.243m
• 2010/11 -
• 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.486m
Government is putting in place funding for the 2009 school year to maintain levels of learning support for students with physical disabilities by ensuring current staffing levels continue. The existing level of therapy support in the relevant schools will not be reduced.
Increasing Staffing in the Vision Education Sector
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $1.181m
• 2009/10 $1.648m
• 2010/11 $1.648m
• 2011/12 $1.648m
Four Year Total $6.125m
This initiative provides funding for an extra 15 specialist staff to support blind and vision impaired students at schools, increasing the pool of specialist staff to 50.
Cost Increases for Non-GSE Providers
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $3.148m
• 2009/10 $3.682m
• 2010/11 $3.682m
• 2011/12 $3.682m
Four Year Total $14.194m
This initiative provides an inflation adjustment for non-Ministry of Education special education providers supporting students through the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes.
Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes Baseline Adjustment
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $5.329m
• 2009/10 $4.743m
• 2010/11 $4.157m
• 2011/12 $4.157m
Four Year Total $18.386m
This initiative, which is demand-driven, increases the number of students provided for by the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes (ORRS) from 6,700 students in 2007/08 to 6,950 students in 2008/09.
The extra funding is intended to ensure that all children who meet the criteria for ORRS can be supported.
School High Health Needs Fund Baseline Update
Operating funding
• 2008/09 $2.671m
• 2009/10 -
• 2010/11 -
• 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.671m
An extra 250 children will be able to access support from the School High Health Needs Fund.
The Fund provides teacher aide support for students with high health needs to ensure students are able to fully participate in education.