The Education Minister's musing about working on New Zealand's education system with National.

National has released a plan, requiring schools to do at least an hour a day of learning in reading, writing and maths.

The party would also require twice yearly standardised tests in Years Three through Eight.

Jan Tinetti disagrees with the approach, but says she'd like to work together on solutions.

"I want to have a discussion with National, I want to have a discussion with them about where we can find some commonalities because this causes disruption every time we have a change in Government."

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