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Anti Academies Alliance Bulletin May 2018

Posted on 17 April 2018 by AAA office

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Plan the fight back! Sign the Petition! March on the DfE!

Posted on 21 March 2016 by AAA office

‘Something must be done!’ cry the Tories saying our children are languishing in ‘failing council-run’ schools . And their ‘something’ is privatisation – the academisation of every single school in England. Continue reading →

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What we learned from Osborne’s Spending Review

Posted on 30 November 2015 by AAA office

A chancellor, even a Tory one, can never be seen to cut funding to schools. Just as in our hospitals, austerity is delivered through smoke and mirrors. The false hope of protected school funding will be swallowed up in rising costs and it ignores a £600m cut in the education services grant. ‘Fairer funding’ may be welcomed in some parts of the country but will lead to even greater cuts in the inner cities. Continue reading →

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Free School: No School

Posted on 14 February 2015 by AAA office

A South London 16-19 free school won’t be opening in September because the sponsor has pulled out just days after promoting itself with promises of lessons in robotics and trips to the large hadron collider in Cern. Tony Sewell, chair of governors at STEM Academy Croydon Gateway said ‘…setting up a free school is a major undertaking and at this present time we feel that we are unable to commit the level of resource required to successfully launch a new academy whilst also fully supporting STEM Academy Tech City, our existing 16-19 academy in Islington.’ Continue reading →

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£71m Paid to Companies Owned by Academy Directors

Posted on 1 December 2014 by AAA office

The National Audit Office has reported that 976 academy trusts – 43% of those examined in 2013 – disclosed “related party transactions” worth an estimated £71m. Almost £9m of this money posed a risk to public money, it added. Continue reading →

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