Understanding how National got into such a mess over class sizes after Budget 2012 - trade-offs, downsides and backdowns.
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National forgets history lessons in class size debacle
A lack of political memory and of old-fashioned electorate experience are at the heart of National's F-grade performance on education and class sizes. If MPs did their homework they'd start looking, well, closer to home
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What does a government do when people are talking about things that don't suit it? It gives people something else to talk about instead.
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