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The government will spend $131 million on improving students' reading, writing and maths in this year's budget, the Education Minister Erica Stanford says.
Stanford made the pre-Budget announcement alongside Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at Boulcott School in Lower Hutt on Monday.
Another 12 initiatives as part of primary and intermediate school education reforms would boost achievement and close the equity gap, Stanford said.
"[Children] will see more resources in their hands, more tutoring catch ups, more time with intervention teachers, and more help with a teacher at the front of the class who knows how to teach maths, reading and writing best practice."
