Metro

School in oui bit of $$ trouble

Mon Dieu!

A French-language charter school in Harlem faces a $500,000 deficit after wasting thousands of dollars on dubious consulting fees, staff costs and doughnut sprees, documents obtained by The Post reveal.

The New York French-American Charter School on West 120th Street blew through $103,000 for consulting, legal fees and temporary help from July through September alone.

The 200-student elementary school is so strapped for cash that it fired two teachers and is begging for school lunch fees it never collected.

One teacher told The Post her final paycheck of $2,300 bounced.

Parents and former trustees are blaming the school’s new administrators — Principal Edith Boncompain and Assistant Principal Claire Zaglauer — who were hired in July despite having no administrative experience.

“The majority of our students come from very humble backgrounds,” said Jenna Chrisphonte, former vice chairwoman of the board of trustees. “Instead of using the money responsibly to make sure all their needs are met, Ms. Boncompain and Mrs. Zaglauer abdicated their fiduciary responsibilities.”

The charter school, which has an annual budget of $3.1 million, paid a private firm up to $18,000 a month for accounting and payroll services throughout 2012 — although it was paying operations director Sybil Swain $85,000 a year to do the same job, documents obtained by The Post show.

Also, the new principals blew $1,196 at Dunkin Donuts, Harlem Bar B Q, McDonald’s and Subway in August and September alone for staff “training” breakfasts and parent meals, statements show.

“The [principals] were like kids in a candy store,” one parent advocate said.

The principals say they didn’t create the financial hole — they inherited it.

“We came here to save the school,” Boncompain said. “That’s why we were hired.”

“We’ve been very careful with money this year,” Boncompain said. “We have some parents who are disgruntled, but the good thing is this problem can be fixed.”

kbriquelet@nypost.com