Academies
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Co-op goes back to its roots with move into academy schools175 years after opening its first store, chain hopes education can boost deprived communities
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Academies and free schools underperform in Sats, figures showGovernment sees conversion to academy status as key method of school improvement
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Yorkshire schools will not get back millions lost in trust's collapseWakefield City Academies Trust centralised schools’ reserves and then went bust -
Parents lose battle to stop academy takeover of Essex schoolConversion of Waltham Holy Cross primary comes after 18-month campaign opposing it
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Boris Johnson's general election gambleThe Guardian’s political editor, Heather Stewart, tells Anushka Asthana that the general election on 12 December will be highly unpredictable as Brexit preferences, unpopular leaders and tactical voting intersect. Plus: Guy Standing on the plunder of natural resources by private interestsPodcast -
'It’s got out of hand': parents split after protest over Carlisle school's strict rulesHeated protest by students and parents resulted in missiles being thrown outside the gates
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Letters: Readers question the credibility of government promises of more money for educationDon’t believe the Tories’ school funding hype
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Sunderland school suspended more than half its pupils in a yearTwo academy chains dominate list of 41 schools that suspended more than one in five pupils
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Tally of £150,000 school academy bosses jumps by 20%Six-figure salaries at 988 charitable trusts despite increase in deficits -
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Letters: Bridget James is despondent about the inequality among institutions, Tony Pitman holds up Germany as a model and a teacher wishing to remain anonymous reveals the Orwellian world of multi-academy trustsDespair over school funding and education system in Britain



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