{"id":132796,"date":"2025-11-13T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132796\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:29:10","slug":"non-existent-trust-contracted-by-government-to-set-up-charter-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132796\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-existent trust contracted by Government to set up charter school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Seymour initially told reporters on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/budget-2024-education-charter-schools-funded-at-cost-of-much-needed-teacher-aides-unions-say\/XCDOJNKEBBEB5PGINY6TIVDVB4\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/budget-2024-education-charter-schools-funded-at-cost-of-much-needed-teacher-aides-unions-say\/XCDOJNKEBBEB5PGINY6TIVDVB4\/\">the trust did exist<\/a>, but his office later clarified he meant the school\u2019s sponsor existed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">He said the sponsor changed some of its arrangements but the name of the sponsor was not changed on the contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOn the contract they still had the old name. So obviously, bit of a screw-up administratively but fundamentally the people are there, the students are there, the Government\u2019s there and that partnership will continue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s not actually a problem to be addressed here. The school\u2019s going to be there, the students are going to be there. Everyone\u2019s very excited about it and the administrative error can be easily fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Seymour said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/charter-schools-acts-david-seymour-announces-three-new-schools-to-open-in-2026\/YEDHXSTIANHZ7KRKTNMBFLS6NE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/charter-schools-acts-david-seymour-announces-three-new-schools-to-open-in-2026\/YEDHXSTIANHZ7KRKTNMBFLS6NE\/\">he had confidence in the agency\u2019s processes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI do, because one administrative error when they\u2019ve opened nearly 18 schools at record speed, I think, is pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">He said the agency was not rushing to approve schools before next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re being rushed for that purpose. I think they\u2019ve been overwhelmed with interest. They\u2019ve had over 100 different organisations that want to run charter schools. They\u2019ve got to assess them all, contract the ones that we can afford to to open right now, and then monitor how they perform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/mixed-signals-in-education-new-curriculum-v-charter-school-push-editorial\/5KGHNCR4EBEN7LGM52PMFAPF3I\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/mixed-signals-in-education-new-curriculum-v-charter-school-push-editorial\/5KGHNCR4EBEN7LGM52PMFAPF3I\/\">huge amount of interest in charter schools<\/a>, which has put pressure, but generally I\u2019m pretty pleased with the way the Charter School Agency has responded to that pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seymour initially told reporters on Thursday the trust did exist, but his office later clarified he meant the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3595,76864,16848,44248,266,5126,111,43,139,91150,69,4062,1551,61,9438,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-132796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-by","9":"tag-charter","10":"tag-contracted","11":"tag-gerritsen","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-john","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nonexistent","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-school","20":"tag-set","21":"tag-to","22":"tag-trust","23":"tag-up"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}