Thicky Nicky restricts forced-academisation plan – to make badly-performing schools worse
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So now the plan is only to force-academies schools that are already performing badly, ensuring that their standards drop even more.
Presumably Ms Morgan has been assured that the only schools likely to be affected now are those teaching the children of poor people.
‘One Nation’ Conservatism strikes again!
Controversial plans to force all state schools in England to become academies have been dropped only days after the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, insisted they would go ahead.
On the day of election declarations across the UK, the Department for Education (DfE) said that plans to force through the policy by 2022 would not now be included in the forthcoming Queen’s speech, arguing: “It is not necessary to bring legislation to bring about blanket conversion of all schools to achieve this goal.”
In a statement on Friday, Morgan said: “I am today reaffirming our determination to see all schools become academies. However, having listened to the feedback from parliamentary colleagues and the education sector, we will now change the path to reaching that goal.”
Instead, the new legislation will include sweeping powers for the DfE to force schools in “underperforming” local authorities to convert to academy status. Those councils with successful track records will be able to continue to maintain their local schools.
The abrupt change was praised by Conservative-led local authorities which had been vocal critics of the original plan.
Source: Government drops plan to make all schools in England academies | Education | The Guardian
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And of course as labour councils have been hit much harder than tory ones the lack of funds will do the job for them. Tossers. all in it together my….left elbow
If at first you do not suceed kick some plebs down. The Tory schools inspectors will now be over this like a nasty rash kicking the excrement out of any school who fails their targets……no matter how bad the working conditions were at the school or how badly funded etc. In comes the expensive privatised alternatives under the guise of non-profit etc. What a load of low life Cons run this country they must be all paid up members of the new World Order certainly not members of the human race.
She truly deserves her nickname!