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Lord and Lady Nash stand down as trustees of the academy chain they founded. Or do they?
Suggestion by Little Wandle that Ofsted requires schools to buy resources matched to phonics scheme appears to be contradicted by inspectorate
Governors’ deliberations on school’s choice to join a MAT kept secret – while staff also not given details on what it will get in return for £400,000 “topslice”
Divide between London and the South East, and rest of England, showing up in school exclusion figures
Claims that major phonics programme, tied to resources sold by publishing giant, is “not-for-profit” prompt questions from rivals
Ofsted upgraded academy from “requires improvement” to “good” despite nearly half of surveyed staff saying it had got worse – and nearly third of responding pupils saying they rarely felt safe
Inspection hears argument that high staff turnover at academy was because of financial inheritance of trust which took it over, nearly six years ago
Council which employed Ruth Perry calls for forced academisation policy to be scrapped
“Alternative Big Listen” includes string of damning findings about accuracy and meaning of Ofsted reports
School’s escape from forced academisation prompts criticism of policy by senior Labour local government figure
Secondary school celebrates escaping forced academisation
Newly-elected MP, for town whose only two secondary schools are run by same academy trust, has backed change of control
Teachers at Longsands, largest school within the Astrea Academy Trust, poised to go on strike next week
“Crisis” for David Ross academy brings scrutiny to Conservative donor’s chain of schools
DfE refuses to release the names of people sitting on body advising it on £100m phonics policy – arguing that they would have expected their identities to be kept secret
Free schools chain in public row with former teacher over use of its site for holiday club
Academy trust flooded under-pressure school with 25 extra staff during an inspection, FOI response reveals
Parkfield School, emblematic of free schools policy struggles, is to close