By AMANDA MORRALL – The Press http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/2839335/Half-school-leavers-financially-illiterate Last updated 05:00 07/09/2009 Kiwi youngsters are leaving school “financially illiterate” and ill-prepared for the future, a new money knowledge survey shows. The survey, released today by the Institute of Financial Advisers (IFA), shows that just over half of the 443 pupils surveyed…
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$1.5m paid to control kids
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4764141a11.html $1.5m paid to control kids By LANE NICHOLS – The Dominion Post | Tuesday, 18 November 2008 A fund to help schools with troublesome pupils has dished out more than 1300 payments – mostly for dealing with violence and aggressive or threatening behaviour. The Interim Response Fund was set up…