Rejecting Academy

8 Feb 2012
Kimberley school governors vote unanimously against academy status

On Tuesday 7th February governors at Kimberley school in Nottingham voted unanimously against academy status!

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.

13 Dec 2011
Montgomery Primary school strikes against academy proposal

Teachers, support staff and parents picketed Montgomery Primary school in Birmingham on Tuesday morning against the proposal to turn their school into an academy. 60 people joined the picket line. NASUWT, NUT and GMB members were on strike and the school was closed.

7 Dec 2011
Coventry Council oppose forced academy conversions

Coventry Council have voted to opposed the forced conversion of Local Authority maintained schools to academies. If this decision was repeated by councils across the country it would be far harder for Gove and the DfE to bully schools into leaving the Local Authority.

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  • Steve White says: Dear Anti Academies Alliance, Waltham Forest NUT had an EC meeting last night and have asked me to...
  • Cornelius@Ofstedwatch says: Schools ripe for conversion to academies are generally in multi ethnic areas with a high...
  • Gill Lee says: I am afraid I have to join Alan in his paranoia and fear that Number 1 will be the outcome. The...
  • Janet says: B
  • Alan says: Unfortunately all of this is either one of two things - 1. A very intelligent strategy from the tory led...
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