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The Act party wants to give school principals the power to award high-performing teachers potentially thousands of dollars for their work. Under Act's poli
Act MPs on stage at the party's annual conference Photo: RNZ/ Katie Scotcher Hundreds of supporters gathered for the party's annual conference - Honest Conversations - in Auckland yesterday, where the success of last year's election was still very much front of mind. Act received 7.6 percent of the vote, meaning leader David Seymour was joined by nine new MPs. It's the biggest caucus ACT has had since 2002, when it had nine MPs under leader Richard Prebble. But after six years as a one man band, ACT was keen to prove the party is more than just its leader. Its nine new MPs were front and c...
"It's a way of making sure that good teaching and teaching excellence is rewarded."