The NZ Taxpayers’ Union reveals that the Ministry of Education spends $1.87 million annually on car parks while rural school bus services are being cut, raising concerns about misaligned priorities and rising bureaucracy in education funding.
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Well, no, it's actually been very widely received. And the big public transport issue in rural communities is school buses. And so we've got more coming on school buses. That what the current government are doing around school buses is making a hell of a mess of it. And I think a lot of rural communities are really upset about that because getting their kids to and from school safely using school buses is incredibly important to our rural communities, and the current government are messing around with that. So my reassurance to our rural communities will be we see you and we hear you on that issue. We've got to fix the school buses.
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harming rural families and schools
Release: Minister of Education thinks New Zealand ends at the Bombay Hillsurgent need to fix rural transport access
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