Rejecting Academy

11 May 2012

Over 300 school workers, parents, residents and students lobbied Governors arriving for a meeting at the Muslim Girls School in Bolton to discuss moving towards Academy status.

8 Apr 2012

Hundreds of delegates packed into the Anti Academies Alliance fringe meeting at NUT conference in Torquay.

12 Mar 2012

Fifteen activists were out campaigning last Saturday in Chorlton, Manchester. Already hundreds have signed petitions opposing the Academy plan. Those pushing the Academy plan are struggling to find any support.

8 Feb 2012

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

5 Jan 2012

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.

Discuss...

  • Andrea Wilson says: Jane, The new Bolingbroke Academy has a very fair admissions procedure which was consulted on...
  • Stephen Cook says: I’ll try and get there on Wednesday.
  • Jane says: In her last post, Andrea is wrong on several counts. She is well aware of the campaign in Wandsworth to...
  • Musejs says: The poll on Free Schools mentioned above does NOT indicate that most parents are supportive of the...
  • Lucy Cooper says: I am reliably informed that at present there are 80 primary schools in Birmingham being forced into...

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