DUO is demanding two hundred thousand back in concept claim ipad school
DUO has filed an intended recovery of two hundred thousand euros with the school board of Education 4 Nieuwe Tijd because of funding received incorrectly for the closed Steve Jobs school De Voorsprong in Amsterdam. That amount is seventy thousand euros higher than was calculated by the Education Inspectorate before the summer holidays.
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The foundation founded by Maurice de Hond does not agree with the claim. A hearing took place last week in which the board defended itself. DUO will make a final decision within six weeks.
The Education Inspectorate concluded rather that De Voorsprong was no longer entitled to funding after October last year because the school had not provided any education since then. Because there is formal one more student was registered, who was in a reassignment process, the board still received approximately 23 thousand euros in tuition fees every month. After an investigation up to April, the Inspectorate came to a sum of 130 euros.
Continue to pay
From public funding data and inquiries by the Education magazine shows that DUO has continued to pay the financing up to and including July. As of 1 August - two months after the report on De Voorsprong was adopted by the Inspectorate - funding for the closed school was discontinued. For the period November to July, the amount is two hundred thousand. DUO points out that it investigation report not until 4 July by the inspection public is made.
The proposed recovery is 70 euros higher than the 130 euros that the Inspectorate calculated this spring.
The Education 4 Nieuwe Tijd foundation will soon be disbanded. The two Steve Jobs schools that started three years ago under the administrative leadership of De Hond in Amsterdam, did not achieve the expected growth in the number of students. The Voorsprong in Amsterdam-Zuidoost has been discontinued. The Development in the Nieuw-West district was merged this summer into an iPad school of another foundation, with which a building was already shared.
De Hond, the sole remaining director of the foundation, does not want to respond substantively to the intended recovery. DUO also refrains from commenting as long as there is no final decision.
