Designated Special Character schools were created under the New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 Education Act of 1989 which allows the Minister of Education

Ministry of Education (New Zealand)

The Ministry of Education , is the primary state sector organisation of New Zealand responsible for New Zealand's education system...

 to establish two types of special character schools under Sections 155 and 156 of the act.

Section 155 schools

Kura Kaupapa Māori

Kura Kaupapa Maori

Kura Kaupapa Māori are Māori-language immersion schools where the philosophy and practice reflect Māori cultural values with the aim of revitalising Māori language, knowledge and culture...

 (Māori-language

Maori language

Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...

 immersion schools), where the principal language of instruction is Māori

Maori language

Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...

. Kura Kaupapa Māori differ from the earlier Kohanga reo

Kohanga reo

The Māori language revival is a movement to promote, reinforce and strengthen the speaking of the Māori language. Primarily in New Zealand, but also in centres with large numbers of New Zealand migrants , the movement aims to increase the use of Māori in the home, in education, government and...

 in that Kohanga reo are immersion

Language immersion

Language immersion is a method of teaching a second language in which the target language is used as the means of instruction. Unlike more traditional language courses, where the target language is simply the subject material, language immersion uses the target language as a teaching tool,...

 kindergartens whereas Kura Kaupapa Māori are immersion schools.

• Te Kura o Waikare
• Te Whanau o Tupuranga
  Te Whanau o Tupuranga
  Te Whanau o Tupuranga is a Designated Special Character school in New Zealand‎. It was the Māori bilingual unit at Clover Park Middle School before becoming a separate school in 2006. It is now a part of Kia Aroha College....
  
  
• Nga Taiatea Wharekura
• Te Kura o Hirangi
• Te Kura o Torere
• Te Kura Toitu o Te Whaiti-nui-a-Toi
• Te Kura Kaupapa Motuhake o Tawhiuau
• Mana Tamariki
• Te Kura o Te Whakatupuranga Rua Mano
• Te Kura Maori o Porirua

Section 156 schools

These are identified as Designated Character Schools, under Section 156. The special character of schools established under this section is not specified in the Act, and parents may propose any desirable special character as long as no other local school is already delivering an education reflecting the same special character.

• Discovery 1 School
  Discovery 1 School
  Discovery 1 School is located in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The school is state funded and offers individual, discovery based learning programmes...
  
  
• Unlimited paenga tawhiti
  Unlimited paenga tawhiti
  Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti is a state secondary school located in the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand.It was established in 2003 by the Christchurch-based Learning Discovery Trust which had earlier set up the primary Discovery 1 School, and is one of just eleven schools running under the...
  
  
• Tamariki School