I and the board take on the blame for what happened, says Lennart Sund, former CEO of Skvaderns gymnasiumskola in Sundsvall, to the newspaper which in a series of articles reviewed the school’s million management. Both Sund and the former chairman of the board say they are remorseful about what happened. The further fate of the now mentioned school money millions has not been known before. Asked for more The school has been in existence since 2002, has a good reputation and had 570 students in the last school year. But as recently as last year, the school complained to the municipality about financial pressures and asked for more money. So it was the year after the board let five members share 14 million. They obviously didn’t need all the money. It naturally stands out to me and the people of Sundsvall, says Olle Åkerlund (S), chairman of the children’s and education committee in Sundsvall, to TV4 Nyheterna. The people of Sundsvall: “It’s shit” The news makes residents in the municipality really angry. – I am at a loss for words for what they can come up with all the time, says Marianne Wärnekrans in Sundsvall. – I think it’s crap. The school management cannot do that to the municipalities. It’s hell, says Hjalmar Sandin. “Speed blind” The former CEO and chairman of the board talks about having become speed blind but that they acted based on advice they received from accountants. The solution of handing out school money to the board, instead of openly declaring it as profit and then giving a stock dividend, was chosen to keep the net asset value of the shares down. That would make it cheaper for new shareholders to buy in. Education Minister Lotta Edholm (L) says she is prevented from commenting on individual cases. But on the other hand, I can state that we must find a system where the unhealthy driving forces in the independent school sector disappear. The interest in profit leads to this type of problem, and the independent school investigation is now working on developing proposals for a profit freeze, says Lotta Edholm to TT.
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