Academisation means SBMs are facing increasingly complicated and diverse duties just as the support from local authority services disappear.
Not exact matches
Changes to accountability announced by education secretary Damian Hinds
mean that poorly performing schools no long face forced
academisation on data alone.
There is no suggestion that the KPIs
mean that schools are being specifically targeted for
academisation, though one union head described its inclusion as an RSC performance measure as «extremely worrying».
Morgan admitted in parliament this week that the proposals will also
mean that good or outstanding schools in these underperforming councils will still face forced
academisation.
So the inference that «poor» local authorities should be stripped of all schools is another bit of weaselly nonsense aimed at getting to full
academisation by stealth if it can not be achieved though direct
means.
«However, this government's focus on
academisation at all costs
means that other options to tackle school improvement are being ignored including tackling the teacher shortage crisis threatening school standards.»
«Full
academisation will
mean that all schools will be part of a dynamic self - improving system in which underperformance can be addressed decisively,» he said.