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 4mins Jack Dyson 4mins 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 22mins Ruth Lucas 22mins 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 12h Samantha Booth 12h 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 22h Ruth Lucas 22h 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 1d Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1d 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 2d Ruth Lucas 2d 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 2d Ruth Lucas 2d 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 3d Ruth Lucas 3d 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 3d Freddie Whittaker 3d 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 4d Jack Dyson 4d 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 4d Jack Dyson 4d 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 4d Esmé Kenney 4d 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,031 Older
