Making all schools into academies in the UK is wrong
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By Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Education Union, UK 6 April 2022
England’s school system has undergone a radical transformation since 2010 with thousands of schools transferred into the control of private organisations called academy trusts. These are hybrid organisations – not-for-profit private trusts subject to company law which receive state funding but operate via a contract with central government, rather than a relationship with the local authority. Many different ...
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