Government backs down on last-minute homeschooling law change

May 27, 2026: | RNZ | Craig McCulloch | Education Minister Erica Stanford has dumped rushed plans for new restrictions on homeschooling after a loud backlash from those affected. Parties from across both the coalition and opposition claimed credit for the backdown on Wednesday, while Stanford pitched it as the government heeding public…

Gloriavale is again testing how New Zealand protects children inside closed communities

May 27, 2026: | NZ Today|  全搜索深度调查记者Josh | The latest reporting on Gloriavale is not only a story about one isolated Christian community on the West Coast. It is a test of how New Zealand responds when housing, schooling, work, faith and social authority are concentrated inside a closed system. RNZ reported on…

Report finds Gloriavale families living in overcrowded hostels with ‘narrow’ homeschooling curriculum

May 27, 2026: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | Some Gloriavale homeschooling families are living and learning in overcrowded hostels that could be unsafe and some of the children are struggling to write, the Education Review Office has found. The findings are detailed in a summary of the agency’s special review of homeschooling by 28…

Home schoolers say Minister’s crack down unfair, unwarranted

May 26, 2026: | The Press | Cate McIntosh | Home schoolers say a last minute education law amendment which would significantly scale up oversight of home schooling has unfairly tarnished the 11,000 students in the sector by linking it with Gloriavale. Minister of Education Erica Stanford added several amendments to the Education…

Ministry letters to Gloriavale Christian School reveal ‘multiple concerns’

May 6, 2026: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | | 1News | Gloriavale Christian School exists to indoctrinate children, maintain a caste system and grow a workforce rather than for teaching and learning, according to documents released by the Ministry of Education. Ministry letters to Gloriavale obtained by RNZ under the Official Information Act…

Just another day at Gloriavale School

April 29, 2026: | Greymouth Star |Arianna Stewart |Subscription Only Months after the Ministry of Education announced it was closing down the Gloriavale Christian School, a Gloriavale spokesman says it is “business as usual”. The end-of-year bombshell from the ministry, left 100 Gloriavale children and their families in limbo, facing uncertainty about the…