An elite private school that charges $25,000 a year to educate seven-year-olds is under investigation into possible misuse of taxpayer funds.
The King’s School in Sydney reportedly planned to install a plunge pool at the headmaster’s residence and sent the school’s senior staff to attend a British rowing event.
Those reports have sparked an inquiry by the New South Wales Education Department inquiry into the 191-year-old independent school’s use of public funding.
“The expectation of any non-government school receiving public funding is very clear: the funding must be for the education of its students,” Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said in a statement on Friday….