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Chain Effects 2017 press release

…to move underperforming academies from their chains and Regional Schools Commissioners have been actively re-brokering academies. However, to make sure that the academies programme realises its goal of improving outcomes…

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Conor Ryan: Back to school for governors

…on academy status; and he rebranded new academies and all new schools as ‘free schools’. With primary academies, the focus was on turning around failing schools. However, a lot of…

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Freedom to teach well?

…than 10 per cent of primaries are. They also created a model for new academies which they called free schools. Legally, they are little different from academies, though opponents have…