Digging around in the undergrowth of schools reform in England Warwick Mansell's news and analysis site
Trust founder’s 15-minute Facebook interview with former Brexit Party MEP fails to spell out wider pressures it is facing from DfE
Charitable trust refusing to grant academy chain access to school site, in forced academisation clash loaded with controversies
Headteacher boards in “opening themselves up to views of local communities – sort of” shocker
The elusive Sue Baldwin, Regional Schools Commissioner, to appear in front of councillors, for live-streamed debate likely to focus on exclusions
DfE sets out in detail its reasons for cloaking academy decision-making in secrecy. But legal tribunal rejects them.
School, “thrilled” at forced academy victory, now says government should be listening to community voices
Is our school going to close? DfE: we’ve told the academy trust what the decision is and they’ll tell you in due course
Academy chief executive, operating 19 schools in region, appointed to that region’s Headteacher Board
Sponsor pulls out of takeover of state boarding school following community uproar
Community unites in outrage over regional schools commissioner's “two-day ultimatum” to respond to her plan to transfer academy to new trust
DfE can point to no evidence of Headteacher Board discussions about forced academy takeover having occurred
Government “corrects” Headteacher Board minutes retrospectively, without explanation, removing reference to limits on academy chain’s expansion
Regional schools commissioner absent from the scene of academies controversies, new data suggest
Packed community event hears united opposition to forced academisation plans
Education’s new firefighter: the many roles of Angela Barry
Who is “Mike at Brentwood”?
Charter schools system “more open than academies” on decision-making
The Regional Schools Commissioner decision-making system gets ever more farcical
Community facing forced academisation given no information on sponsor’s track record
Why RSCs need to be accountable to parents, not heads
Parents at school facing controversial academy takeover told decision has been taken for them
The Regional Schools Commissioner system for approving school takeovers is a disgrace
