Is Your Kindergarten Planning to Restructure?
If you are not happy about restructuring proposals for your kindergarten, then here's a helpful article with background information and questions you could ask. By…
Kindergarten Teachers to Return to State Sector
Government Ownership of Kindergartens. Press Release. 13 MARCH 2000. Trevor Mallard. Kindergarten teachers will be returned to the State Sector Act in a clause which…
Auckland Free Kindergartens Claimed Back by the People
Auckland Kindergarten Association was privatising, charging fees and moving to 6 hour plus days for children. Parents fought to be involved in decision-making and to…
Addressing Complaints at Kindergarten Association
Addressing Complaints at Kindergarten Association. Opinion article. By Dr Sarah Alexander. November 13, 2017. The price of the Auckland Kindergarten Association Board sleeping at the…
What’s Happening For Children as a Result of AKA Kindergarten Changes
There are serious outcomes of kindergarten changes at the Auckland Kindergarten Association (AKA). The following is an opinion article compiled by Dr Sarah Alexander and…
Digging its Own Hole Deeper: The AKA ongoing story
What's Happening at the AKA. Opinion article. By Dr Sarah Alexander. October 29, 2017. The Auckland Kindergarten Association has dug itself a hole and it…
Democracy Missing: The Troubling State of Management and Relationships at the AKA
Kindergarten Democracy Missing. Opinion Editorial. Dr Sarah Alexander. 4 October 2017. The Auckland Kindergarten Association is at the precipice of completely losing its community roots.…
Heroes or Dictators? Kindergarten Consultation Problems
The Standard of Kindergarten Consultation on Changing a Publicly Revered ECE Service. An Opinion Editorial. By Dr Sarah Alexander. August, 8, 2017. The problem Kindergartens…
Open Letter to Political Leaders to Save the Public Free Kindergarten Model
Save the Free Kindergarten Model. This letter was first produced as a draft, and following feedback from within our early childhood networks a final copy…
Heretaunga Kindergarten Association – Iconic Free Kindergarten Under Threat
Heretaunga Kindergarten Association - Community Call For Preservation of Public KindergartenMay 4, 2017. New Zealand’s iconic free kindergarten is under threat of extinction. Parents and…
Kindergartens Become All-day Childcare
The decline of sessional kindergartens. By Dr Sarah Alexander. June 30, 2010. The Statistics In 2009 Free Kindergartens provided a sessional preschool service to…
End of an Era for Our Kindys: Privatisation
Summary of "End of an Era for Our Kindys" Article. Parents running kindergarten committees were told in 2007 by Tania Harvey (CEO of AKA) and…
Vice-President Says Government Does Not Want to Be Involved in Kindergartens
Government does not want to be involved in kindergartens. Article key points. Victoria Carter, Vice-President of the AKA argues that bulk funding shows the government…
