Associate Education Minister David Seymour has tasked the board with helping reintroduce charter schools for 2025. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
Members of a Charter Schools establishment board will, in total, be paid just over $4500 a day in fees.
Associate Education Minister David Seymour set up the eight-member board this month to pave the way for more charter schools.
The chair, former St Cuthbert's College principal, Justine Mahon's fee is $800 a day.
Each of the seven members gets $550 a day.
The Education Ministry, which is part of the public sector's cost-cutting drive, will pay the fees out of its baseline budget.
One member is a state school principal - they cannot claim the fee and their usual salary for the same day.
"I hope and intend to see many new charter schools opening, and state and state-integrated schools converting to become charter schools," Seymour said when he announced the board.
Another education alternative, still being explored by the government, is funding state school builds using public-private partnerships (PPPs).
