(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has given Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school two days to appoint an acceptable interim director or have its funding halted in December.
The Cornelius Haga Lyceum was due to hand over control to an interim chief before Tuesday but said its candidate, who was acceptable to school inspectors, could not be formally installed because he is not Muslim.
The school’s statutes will have to be amended to make his appointment possible and that may take several weeks, the school’s board told the Volkskrant.
Slob said in September that the entire board must step down, or the government will halt all funding. It [is] extremely rare for a government minister to intervene directly in a school.
