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Media releases on the Beehive website
- Government creates establishment board for charter schools
- Charter schools to lift educational outcomes
- Improving educational choices for families and students
- Huge opportunity for educators and students as charter school applications open
- Students' needs at centre of charter schools’ adjustments
- Overwhelming demand to open charter schools
- Tough targets for charter schools will raise achievement
- Lifting education outcomes for young Kiwis
- Charter schools’ authorisation board appointments announced
- PPTA accepts charter schools
- First charter school to open in term 1, 2025
- More charter schools to open term 1, 2025 announced
- TIPENE to open term 1, 2025
- First Charter Schools Open 2025
- Round two charter school applications now open
- Two new charter schools announced
- Two new schools join charter schools stable
- Three new charter schools will give students new options in Term 1 2026
- New Zealand's first sport school will open in Term 1 2026
- Sisters United Academy gives students new options in Term 1 2026
- Autism NZ Education Hub gives students new options in Term 3 2026
Charter School Agency media releases
- Diversity in education choices will help lift achievement levels
- New charter schools announced
- Seventh new charter school announced
- New charter schools open doors
- Next round of applications for charter schools open
- Eighth charter school opens
- New charter schools approved
- Three more new charter schools to open in term one next year
- Sisters United Academy
- Newest charter school will be New Zealand's first dedicated sports school