The government is launching an inquiry into school property with an eye to scrapping potentially hundreds of building projects that it calls unrealistic and unaffordable.
Announcing the inquiry today, Education Minister Erica Stanford said the government inherited a school property system "bordering on crisis."
The Ministry of Education has already paused 20 building projects, and a further 350 projects will need to be reassessed, as they are set to fall well short of expectations.
Erica Stanford used as an example a project to bring together Blenheim's Marlborough Boys and Marlborough Girls' colleges, which had its costs blow out from 170 to 405 million dollars.
Principal of Marlborough Girls College, Mary-Jean Lynch speaks to Lisa Owen.
