https://ncea.education.govt.nz/mana-orite-mo-te-matauranga-m...

https://ncea.education.govt.nz/explaining-new-ncea-materials

NCEA is New Zealands main secondary school qualification.

First link talks about 'equal status' of Māori knowledge, but it talks about that in context of pathways to passing the NCEA, i.e. my reading of it is, its like a different curriculum for getting the qualification. That isn't the same as saying 'Māori knowledge has equal status with western science full stop'. It seems to be more like 'theres a path to this qualification that is based more on Māori knowledge'. Also a lot of it is about values rather than knowledge. But I've only skimmed it, thats just the impression I got.