The Labour Party will roll out reading-recovery programmes to all schools and develop a maths-recovery programme if it forms a future Government.
The education policy initiative is being announced by Labour leader David Shearer in a speech at St Leonard's Road School, Kelston, in West Auckland this afternoon.
Mr Shearer said reading-recovery programmes were available in only 59 percent of low-decile schools.
"Reading recovery is the gold-standard intervention to help kids who are struggling to learn to read. It's a proven success and should be available to every child who needs it," he said.
Labour would also investigate a maths-recovery programme, he said.
"In today's world a kid with no skills is a kid with no future. Education is critical to building a modern 21st-century economy," he said.
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