One of the best-paid academy trust chief executives in England spent more than £1,000 of public cash on “premium economy flights” to an Apple conference in California.
Auditors have raised concerns the upgrade by Hull Collaborative boss Estelle Macdonald last year “could be seen as excessive and unnecessary expenditure”.
It is the latest example of a trust getting into hot water after leaders visited the tech giant.
One estimated as many as 200 leaders have attended summits in the US hosted by Apple, which it says are professional development conferences.
