Schools Academies lobby pension fund chiefs over ‘unfair’ extra payments West Yorkshire academy chains believe they are paying millions more than local authority schools Jack Dyson 5d Jack Dyson 5d Inclusion Exclusive Councils head to court over £4.5m in special school fees Wandsworth council has launched legal action against Kent over a school it ran in the county Ruth Lucas 5d Ruth Lucas 5d Inclusion Whitehall to leverage capital cash to force council mainstream focus Town halls will be required to sign a new ‘memorandum of understanding’ on how to spend £860m of high… Samantha Booth 5d Samantha Booth 5d News Attendance gap for poorer pupils reaches all-time high Overall absence and persistent absence rates see improvements, but severe absence remains stubborn Ruth Lucas 6d Ruth Lucas 6d Schools Third of parents say they take children on term-time holidays New Public First report also reveals regional divides in attitudes to absence and behaviour Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6d Inclusion DfE inclusion tsar to lead SEND expert panel Academy trust boss Tom Rees will co-chair a panel to create inclusion standards and new SEND ‘packages’ Ruth Lucas 6d Ruth Lucas 6d Inclusion New ‘inclusion strategies’: What schools need to know DfE fleshes out requirements for annual strategies that will attract £400m a year in funding Ruth Lucas 7d Ruth Lucas 7d Inclusion Some schools ‘actively discourage’ SEN support pupils, research warns Top performing schools are found to take less pupils with SEND and eligible for free school meals Ruth Lucas 1w Ruth Lucas 1w Schools More pupils report conspiracy theories and misinfo in school And four in five teachers report having had a pupil bring up a conspiracy theory with them Freddie Whittaker 1w Freddie Whittaker 1w Academies Exclusive David Ross trust braced for redundancies amid falling rolls Cuts loom at 36-school MAT after central team review failed to address funding reductions Jack Dyson 1w Jack Dyson 1w School funding More strikes ‘inevitable’ as trusts axe jobs to stay afloat Dozens of schools rocked by strike announcements over planned restructures dubbed ‘neither fair nor sustainable’ Jack Dyson 1w Jack Dyson 1w School funding ‘We’re not magicians’: Sixth forms’ fury over cash squeeze Leaders say funding gap could threaten their ability to offer a broad range of subjects and hold down class… Esmé Kenney 1w Esmé Kenney 1w Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1,032 Older
