NAHT (headteachers') conference: Industrial action threat over academies

[LeftishBrit]

Head teachers have threatened industrial action over plans to make all state schools in England academies, after heckling Education Secretary Nicky Morgan at their conference.

National Association of Head Teachers delegates said ministers were simply not listening to their concerns.

Mrs Morgan's speech was met with cries of "rubbish" as she talked about the academies programme and testing....



The government has said that all schools will either have to convert to academy status - which sees them funded by the Department for Education but run by a governing body or trust independent from the local authority - by 2020 or commit to doing so by 2022.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-36176846

[Bad Dog]

1. Damn right.

This is a government driven by ideology and a need to complete Thatcher's revolution rather than by pragmatism and what's right for the country. This is the NHS all over again.