Sabin Mike: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSabin Mike: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 17 September 2013. Volume:693;Page:13376. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]9.MIKE SABIN (National—Northland) to theMinister of Education: What recent announcements has she made on partnership schools?Hon HEKIA PARATA (Minister of Education):Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Today I was really pleased to join the Prime Minister and the Hon John Banks the Associate Minister of Education in announcing five partnership schools kura hourua. They are The Rise UP AcademyMāngere East; South Auckland Middle School South Auckland; Te Kura Hourua o WhangareiTerengaParaoa Whangarei; Te Kura Hourua ki Whangaruru Whangaruru Northland; and Vanguard Military School Albany North Shore. I welcome these schools as another model in our already diverse range of schooling options aimed at raising achievement for all our children and young people. I thank all those who have contributed—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I apologise for interrupting the Minister but the level of interjection now is at a stage where I am having trouble listening to the Minister. I apologise to the Minister.Hon HEKIA PARATA: I should like to thank all those who have contributed so constructively to the process to date unwilling as we are on this side of the House to condone the status quo of failure for specific groups of children and young people.Mike Sabin: How will partnership schools raise achievement?Hon HEKIA PARATA: The schools will have greater freedom and flexibility to innovate and engage with their students in return for stronger accountability for improving educational outcomes. These schools will particularly focus on the children and young people who are not being successful in our mainstream system. Partnership schools kura hourua will be accountable to the Government for raising achievement through a contract to deliver specific school-level targets.Chris Hipkins: What proportion of those teaching in the approved partnership schools will be required to be registered teachers?Hon HEKIA PARATA: All five schools are going to be delivering the New Zealand curriculum and/or TeMarautanga o Aotearoa. In the delivery of the core curriculum registered teachers will be delivering those together with those who hold limited authority to teach that provide co-curricular activities together with some who are not registered teachers but who are skilled for instance in equine husbandry defence force preparation engineering carving and so forth.Chris Hipkins: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. That was actually a very specific straightforward question asking her what proportion of those teaching in partnership schools were required to be registered teachers.Mr SPEAKER: I heard the question. I think that to be fair to the Minister it was actually difficult to hear the question because of the level of noise particularly from the Government side. Can I ask the member to repeat the question.Chris Hipkins: What proportion of those teaching in the approved partnership schools will be required to be registered teachers?Hon HEKIA PARATA: We have accepted contracts with the proposed sponsors and they are different across each of the schools. For The Rise UP Academy it will be 100 percent registered teachers. For Te Kura Hourua o WhangareiTerengaParaoa it will be 79 percent. For the other three schools it will depend on the division between core curriculum and TeMarautanga o Aotearoa and co-curricular activity.Grant Robertson: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I appreciate the answer that the Minister gave there but I am struggling to understand why she was unable to give that answer to my colleague when he asked—Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is not a point of order. I explained when I rose to accept a repeat of the question from your colleague Chris Hipkins that it was possibly because of the level of noise that it was difficult to hear the question. When the Minister heard the question I think she made a very adequate response to the question.