Showing posts with label forced academies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forced academies. Show all posts
Sunday 12 June 2016

Would you like to sign Brent councillors' and educationalists' joint letter opposing the goverment's forced academies policy?

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Having appealed on Wembley Matters LINK for Brent Council to take a stand on the government's policy on forcing all schools to become...
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Wednesday 11 May 2016

London Councils calls for academy conversion cash to be used to level up school funding

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London Councils' Executive member for children, skills and employment Cllr Peter John OBE has responded to the re...
Saturday 30 April 2016

There is an alternative: Parents Defending Education campaign – launch statement

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As Nicky Morgan is booed by headteachers and they consider industrial action against her plans to force all schools to covert to academy st...
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Wednesday 27 April 2016

Nicky Morgan to be grilled on White Paper this afternoon

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From the Petitions Team, House of Commons       Dear Martin Francis, You recently signed the petition "Hold a public inquiry and...
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Tuesday 5 April 2016

Dawn Butler MP calls on Brent to lead fight to bring schools back under local authority control

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I was one of 10 Chairs of Governing Bodies in Brent to send a letter to Brent Council leader Muhammed Butt and Lead Member for Children and...
Thursday 24 March 2016

Hundreds of teachers tell Government it has bitten off more than it can chew on academies

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Sunday 20 March 2016

100k petition against forced academisation wins consideration for parliamentary debate

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From Anti Academies Alliance The public have spoken – they want an inquiry into academies! The Anti-Academies Alliance is delighted t...
Sunday 26 January 2014

How heads can resist forced academies

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It was clear listening yesterday to the parents from Snaresbrook Primary School, who successfully fought against forced academisation, tha...
Tuesday 29 October 2013

Forced academies: Victory and victims

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Parents at Snaresbrook Primary in the London Borough of Redbridge were celebrating tonight after the Department for Education decided not t...
Sunday 6 October 2013

Time for concerted preemptive advice on primary forced academies

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An initiative I fully support from the Education Reform website: LINK It is time to create a concerted stand against the bulldozing DfE c...
Tuesday 25 June 2013

Michael Pavey reneges on anti-academy promises

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Cllr Michael Pavey, only months into his new job as Brent's lead member for children and families, tonight reneged on his promises of o...
Wednesday 29 May 2013

Brent Council face united challenge on imposition of IEB at Copland School

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The governing body of Copland High School has joined with unions in challenging Brent Council's intention to  impose an  Interim Execut...
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Thursday 23 May 2013

Beware: Sham consultation ahead

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Guest blog by Save Roke Campaign, Parents at Roke Primary in Croydon have been campaigning against their children's school being forc...
Tuesday 21 May 2013

Copland teachers: Why we are striking on Thursday

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Copland Community School in Wembley has been told by the DfE that it must become an academy. Unless agreement can be reached for a way ...
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Friday 26 April 2013

Brent Council still fails to support Gladstone Park parents

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As you probably know I have had an exchange of letters with Cllr Mary Arnold (Brent Executive lead member for children and families) over e...
Sunday 21 April 2013

Green perspective on fragmentation of education through academies and free schools

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For the record and for the wider audience beyond Brent interested in academies and free schools here is the letter I had published in the B...
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Sunday 24 March 2013

Dear Mr Gove (This is War)

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As teachers prepare for their Easter conferences and their fire is trained on Michael Gove and Michael Wilshaw LINK I thought I would sh...
Sunday 17 March 2013

Fellow Lib Dem MPs show Teather the way on forced academies

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Although Sarah Teather MP cancelled her meeting with Gladstone Primary School parents last week two of her Lib Dem colleagues in the House ...
Friday 15 March 2013

What Michael Gove's outrageous academisation programme is doing to my mother

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The daughter of a teacher has asked that her Facebook posting on her mother's plight as a teacher be shared widely LINK I publish it h...
Thursday 14 March 2013

No more bullying - Gove must go!

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Parents and children from Gladstone Park Primary and Roke Primary protested against Michael Gove's bullying tactics on forced academies...