Principals say their schools have had to cut budgets and go into debt because of the cost of commissioners appointed by the Ministry of Education.
The Government has ordered a review of its interventions after complaints that Mike Eru, the commissioner of Moerewa School in Northland, has been earning nearly $150,000 a year to run the school part-time.
About 70 schools of 2500 are being run by commissioners or statutory managers. Schools have to pay for statutory interventions like commissioners if the Education Ministry thinks they can afford it.
But principals of schools that had commissioners until recently have toldRadio New Zealand News on Wednesday they struggled to meet the bills.
