Write up from my old mate Max Rashbrooke on the success of the school lunch program, and the likely impacts of the cuts to the program from the National-Act-NZ First government.
Worth noting that this government has railed against supposed falling achievement rates*, yet are cutting one of the most effective interventions that improves outcomes for lowest achievers.
Switching from cooking in schools to heat & eat is extremely dumb, especially if they’re in microwave packaged individual portions - microwaving doesn’t scale well.
*Previous discussion on what the maths curriculum changes are, and how they’re responding to a “crisis” that doesn’t really exist: https://lemmy.nz/post/14030275 https://archive.is/YK9gk
How about both.
He saved them in the sense that they were on the chopping block before the public backlash.
But; now they are a much worse version of what they used to be.
