POOR KIDS SNUBBED BY NEW ”BANKERS” SCHOOL” SET UP WITH PUBLIC CASH

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Pupils from a struggling primary that lies on a deprived council estate have been told there will be no place for them at a ConDem free school being set up with backing from City fatcats.
Yet those at four others in wealthier parts of the same area have been singled out as feeders for Bolingbroke Academy – dubbed the bankers’ school – when it opens next year.
Bolingbroke Academy, being built on the site of a former hospital in Battersea, is supported by leading City finance firms.

Among them are NM ­Rothschild, Credit Suisse, Citi Group, Barclays Capital, Coutts, Normura, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and RBS.

Tory-controlled Wandsworth Council is spending £13million buying the site and more public cash will be needed to convert it into a school. Taxpayers face an estimated £6million yearly bill for running the academy.
 
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Anti Academies Alliance AGMThe Anti Academies Alliance AGM will be held from 1pm to 4pm this Saturday 15th January in Central London.

The AGM will be opened by:

Bob Johnson NASUWT national official for Salaries, Pensions and Conditions of Service andCllr Peter Downes, Lib Dem councillor who moved the motion against Academies and Free schools at the Lib Dem conference.

We invite all local campaigns, union group and parents to join us to discuss how we campaign against Gove’s Academies.

More information:

 
GCSE results: 1/3 of Academies below government ‘floor target’ 
The government have set a ‘floor target’ of 35% of pupils in a school achieving 5 A*-C GCSE’s including English and Maths.

Only 216 English schools now fall into this category, despite the floor target having been raised.
The government say that schools below this level face closure or being converted into an Academy.

Schools planning to become academies could see their applications thwarted if heads recognise unions and sign up to national pay and conditions for staff, the Government has confirmed.
The Department for Education has told The TES that a head’s decision to sign up to a standard TUC recognition agreement could be “one of the factors that leads to the school not being granted academy status”.

Heads who have applied for academy status received a letter from schools minister Lord Hill at the end of last year. It said that if a school signed up to a standard agreement being promoted by the NASUWT, it would be “a significant factor in the assessment the secretary of state will make before deciding whether or not to enter into a funding agreement for an academy”.
TES story here
 
News                            

Ecclesbourne School teachers strike over academy plan

STRIKE action at a Derbyshire school could continue after a second walkout by staff was hailed a success.

GCSE league tables: more than 200 schools ‘face closure’

Struggling schools could be taken over by super-heads, says Michael Gove

Schools start to question wisdom of rushing to convert to academy status

New free school in Queen’s Park could see pupil poaching, says Labour leader Paul Dimoldenberg

One in 10 secondary schools offered heads £100,000 salary

Launch of 100 technical schools could harm secondaries, argue heads

Why Gove no longer cites Sweden as a ‘model’ for education reform

Marlowe Academy league table result ‘disappointing’

 
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Anti Academies Alliance Financial Appeal
The Anti Academies Alliance has launched a Financial Appeal to help build the opposition to Academies and ‘Free’ Schools.
Read our Appeal, and download the leaflet, here

http://www.antiacademies.org.uk/Home/financial-appeal
 
How can the Anti Academies Alliance help your school?

We continue to be approached by schools asking us to help them campaign against Academy proposals that are being pushed on them.

The Anti Academies Alliance is happy to work with head teachers, governors, parents and staff to develop a campaign to prevent your school becoming an Academy.
Please contact the office if you need help.
 
Anti Academies DVD

We have an excellent new 13 minute DVD outlining the case against Academies and ‘Free’ Schools.

It is perfect for union meetings / parent meetings / campaign meetings.
If you would like a copy they are £10 to union groups / £2 to parent and campaign groups. We can produce bulk orders at a reduced price. Send orders to the office and we will despatch them with an invoice.
 
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Anti Academies newspaper

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