The Education Minister's looking to set it in stone what a school's ultimate goal should be.
Erica Stanford's introducing a new Bill requiring boards to have attendance management plans.
It includes amending school board objectives to make educational achievement the ultimate goal.
Stanford told Mike Hosking she wants to make it clear.
She says under the previous government it became very convoluted and it took away from the previous goal of having students achieve.
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