Taihape Area School is getting a rebuild. a decade after flaws were exposed.
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But that won t begin until next year, a decade after Taihape Area School s myriad flaws were exposed, and in the meantime it faces whopping power bills to keep its classrooms healthy.
Its former board of trustees chair blames official incompetence, and fears that the rebuild on proven less-than-stable land won t go well.
But the school says its existing site is OK, its existing classrooms are healthy - which the Ministry of Education echoes - and that the rebuild will be fantastic .
More than 250 children who attend years 1 to 13 at the 60 percent Māori school, face another winter in spaces described like this in official reports that have ping-ponged back and forth since 2014.
Taihape Area School gets rebuild a decade after flaw identified
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Taihape Area School gets rebuild a decade after flaw identified
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