Partnership School Minister and Act Party leader Seymour said Waipareira Trust was offered the same conditions as all organisations wishing to establish a charter school. The Government's charter school model has been branded "an unworkable mirage" by former MP John Tamihere, after he pulled the plug on a proposed bilingual West Auckland school. The Te Whnau O Waipareira Trust, headed by Tamihere, was on the verge of announcing a new partnership school with the Ministry of Education, with 100 children already signed up to enrol. Describing the 47-page contract as "extraordinarily prescriptive", Tamihere said the partnership model was not the promise the Government made it out to be. However, Tamihere said the trust would not drop its desire to form a new school in West Auckland.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 15, 2016 16:52 UTC