Warnings have emerged over a super league of highly-paid academy trust chiefs with 98 now earning more than Boris Johnson s £158,000 salary.
An investigation by Schools Week analysed data from trust s accounts between 2019 and last year, finding that 29 bosses earned a minimum of £200,000.
It also discovered that 25 chiefs had pay rises equal to or over £15,000, with an overall 55 per cent receiving wage increases - triple the number of pay cuts.
The Harris Federation s Sir Dan Moynihan was named England s best paid trust chief executive with a salary of at least £455,000, followed by Sir Kevin Satchwell, the executive head of Thomas Telford School, with a minimum salary of £290,000.
Children will return to face-to-face lessons in January, a senior minister claimed today amid claims that some schools may remain shut until February.
Communities Minister Robert Jenrick said that classes would restart in person in the first few weeks of January , with teachers overseeing Covid tests for pupils to cut down on disruption.
His comments came amid fears that the mutant coronavirus strain spreads more easily among children.
With cases surging in many parts of the country, Downing Street sources last night said that it was too early to guarantee all pupils would be back in their classrooms by January 11.