This reality requires that we give local leaders and parents the choices, flexibility, and local control necessary to meet the needs of a diverse body of individual students. (utahpubliceducation.org)
As well as forcing schools to become academies, the government intends to remove the requirement for governing bodies to have parent governors, with multi academy trusts (MAT) being able to close down the governing bodies of individual schools. (politics.co.uk)
The move is unlikely to placate governors who flagged the trend for large academy chains to abolish the governing bodies of individual schools. (schoolsweek.co.uk)