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5 Jan 2012
St Leonards Catholic Comprehensive abandons academy plans

St. Leonard’s Catholic Comprehensive School in Durham has now abandoned plans to convert to academy status. Now neither of the 2 best performing state secondary schools in the North East of England is going to become an academy.

1 Mar 2013
Education Secretary Michael Gove slammed over East Durham schools ‘slur’

LABOUR leaders are “outraged” at a Government minister’s “insult” that brands local schools as having a lack of ambition.

Michael Gove has sparked anger after he said you can walk into an East Durham school and “smell the sense of defeatism”.

6 Mar 2013
After the porky pie by Michael Gove, the cover-up. Neither went well.

Let us return to that porky pie told by Michael Gove in a morale -trashing speech to thinktankers last week. “When you go into those …

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