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Sunday 11 March 2012

Lowdown on the ‘Underperforming’ Academy Sponsors

The Con Dem Education Minister Michael Gove has named 96 Primary schools and 65 secondary schools which are to become sponsored academies.
The Anti Academies Alliance examines the credentials of those empire-building organisations taking over the schools branded in derogatory terms as ‘underperforming’ by Gove and finds that all that glisters is not gold: http://antiacademies.org.uk/2012/03/who-is-gove-giving-our-primary-schools-to/