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    #26
    Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

    http://schoolsweek.co.uk/academy-ceo-pay-how-the-biggest-trusts-stack-up/

    The salary of the highest paid academy chain leader has soared to £370,000 – more than two-and-a-half times that of Prime Minister David Cameron.
    Sir Daniel Moynihan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, saw his pay for running 28 schools increase by nearly £40,000 in 2014 – making him the highest paid boss of a multi-academy trust (MAT).
    Friend of mine was forced to train by Harris. They were shit for her.

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      #27
      Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

      The Prime Ministerial PM:

      Cameron says Andy Burnham has supported some free schools, like the Everton free school. But he does not support them in principle. If free schools are good enough for his constituents, why are they not good enough for everyone else?
      Because you won't let any other schools open. He either has to "support" a free school in his area or explain why lots of kids don't have a school place.

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        #28
        Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

        Laura McIerney found this.



        You're looking at the complete minutes.

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          #29
          Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

          This https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/matthew-taylor-blog/2015/05/testing-testing-one-two-scream/ comments further on the developing madness at KS2 which I posted on up thread. If you haven't read the linked article https://disidealist.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/mediocre-failures/ it's worth a read as one of the most humane rants I've read on the world according to Gove et al.

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            #30
            Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

            Disidealist is good on Twitter. Thanks for the link.

            Wonderfully controlled anger there.

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              #31
              Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

              The "robber barons" are back: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/10/labour-mp-norwich-south-academy-maiden-speech

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                #32
                Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                He's one of the best MPs in the Commons already in't he, Lewis?

                Ex-NUJ activist at the Beeb too

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                  #33
                  Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                  E10 Rifle wrote: He's one of the best MPs in the Commons already in't he, Lewis?

                  Ex-NUJ activist at the Beeb too
                  He sure is. And he's been wearing his NUJ badge in the commons.

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                    #34
                    Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                    Very good start he's made.

                    The defeated candidate for the other Norwich seat wasn't impressive.

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                      #35
                      Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                      In response, Rachel de Souza, the trust’s chief executive, said: “We are disappointed by Clive Lewis’s speech. We are always keen to work with our local politicians and invited Mr Lewis to come and visit the trust in March. Unfortunately, he chose not to come.”

                      De Souza rejected the “robber baron” label and said the chain’s trustees had personally donated £130,000 this year to support education in Norfolk.
                      Ha ha.

                      £60m v £130k.

                      If De Souza was donating £130k herself, she'd still be quids in with that knighthood the Coalition gave her. As would "Sir" Theodore Agnew.

                      You know how many schools De Souza oversees? 10. An LA head of schools would oversee more pupils than that, even now.

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                        #36
                        Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                        That ole Free School/Academy/DfE magic.

                        http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/11/dixons-kings-academy-bradford-troubled-history

                        Teacher stabbed at the former Kings Science Academy.

                        Good summary of all the past farce, after Cameron and Gove praised it to the hilt. The best bit is the DfE investigating, finding evidence of fraud and not trying very hard to inform the police.

                        Re the stabbing, interesting comment from the Police.

                        “We are also working closely with our partners in the local authorities to investigate the full circumstances of this incident, which will be the subject of a thorough investigation.”
                        Is he unaware of how academies work, or is that an admission that the LAs are the only ones worth talking to?

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                          #37
                          Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                          Does he mean the social services side of the local authority perhaps?

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                            #38
                            Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                            And meanwhile, in Sweden, it's all unravelled

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                              #39
                              Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                              Kevchenko wrote: Does he mean the social services side of the local authority perhaps?
                              Ah, he might do.

                              Imagine, the same organization were doing social services and schooling.

                              To make things more complicated, Bradford's Education was until recently outsourced.

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                                #40
                                Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                E10 Rifle wrote: And meanwhile, in Sweden, it's all unravelled
                                Brains Trust below the line blame immigration. Rather missing that they have immigrants in other countries and achievement has apparently declined across all social groups in Sweden.

                                I didn't know they had vouchers. Utter lunacy.

                                Interesting to read this:

                                Internationella Engelska Skolan (IES), one of the largest providers of free schools in Sweden. IES currently educates 20,000 pupils in 30 schools across Sweden. Its success is such that a further 94,000 children are on its waiting lists, some as young as three weeks have their names down for a place.
                                IES have run one school in England, rated Inadequate. They'd have been out on their arse if Gove hadn't given them a 10 year contract.

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                                  #41
                                  Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                  If a compulsory schooling system in any country has 94,000 people on waiting lists, then that system is neither efficient nor succeeding. By definition. Unless they really do think like Manchester United - that having a waiting list for season-ticket holders is proof of a success.

                                  These people are dangerously off their fucking heads.

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                                    #42
                                    Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                    Interesting point by "PISA man":

                                    The Guardian asked Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s director for education and skills, what lessons the UK might learn from the Swedish experience. He said: “When establishing school autonomy and choice, the Swedish system did not strengthen oversight and intervention functions (which were traditionally weak in Sweden). So the system had no means to learn from successful schools and scale their success, and it had no means to detect and address educational underperformance.

                                    “I think the UK needs to watch out for that as well, unless it is willing and able to upscale Ofsted by dimensions. Successful school systems are more than a collection of independent schools.”
                                    Interesting that he sees accountability as Ofsted rather than LAs. Not a very attractive vision. And his organization are extremely influential- Scotland and Wales paid them to advise on their systems.

                                    Though Roger O thinks that abolishing Ofsted would cause void.

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                                      #43
                                      Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                      E10 Rifle wrote: If a compulsory schooling system in any country has 94,000 people on waiting lists, then that system is neither efficient nor succeeding. By definition. Unless they really do think like Manchester United - that having a waiting list for season-ticket holders is proof of a success.

                                      These people are dangerously off their fucking heads.
                                      Sounds like IES don't have all that much interest in educating many more than they do. In rational economic man terms, they're supposed to expand and educate all these other people. But that dilutes the brand.

                                      Same thing happens in our system. My sister couldn't believe what an arsehole one headmaster of a high achieving school was. Kids who went to the sink school (where she and my brother went in the seventies, when it was a sink school aleady) were not welcome in his sixth form.

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                                        #44
                                        Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                        Oh God.

                                        The WLFS (with Toby Young eased nicely out of the way) had been rated Outstanding, so he says.

                                        Never mind that you're not supposed to tell even the staff till it gets published.

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                                          #45
                                          Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                          No money left! As Tory Council (Kingston) bails out a free school with £600k for temporary premises.

                                          http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/13326830.Kingston_Council_to_fork_out___600_000_fo r_Kingston_Academy_s__temporary_learning_village_/

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                                            #46
                                            Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                            http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/11/exams-rewritten-after-van-containing-papers-stolen

                                            An exam board has been forced to rewrite a group of A-level and GCSE exam papers at the last minute after a van delivering the papers to schools was stolen earlier this month. AQA, the exam board, confirmed the theft of a Parcelforce van containing exam papers for a number of different subjects, leading it to produce replacement papers to guard against the possibility of fraud.

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                                              #47
                                              Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                              School rated Outstanding is the West London Free School Primary.

                                              Interesting intake

                                              Pupils are from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, with the largest group being White British. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is below average. Almost all of these pupils are bilingual.

                                              The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs is well below average.

                                              The proportion of pupils who are known to be eligible for the pupil premium, which is additional government funding provided for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and looked after children, is well below average.
                                              See what they did there?

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                                                #48
                                                Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                                http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/academies-in-poorlyfunded-areas-face-cash-crisis-10318401.html

                                                The fear is that individual, or “single converter”, academies that are not part of a wider chain nor financially linked to a local authority. Without that link, it is not clear how an academy would be rescued should it start losing money.
                                                Didn't see this coming, did you?

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                                                  #49
                                                  Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                                  The fear is that individual, or “single converter”, academies that are not part of a wider chain nor financially linked to a local authority.
                                                  Eh?

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                                                    #50
                                                    Justine Greening/ Continuity Gove

                                                    Well might you say that.

                                                    The Coalition were caught unawares by the staggeringly novel economic concepts of pooling and economies of scale. You might recall Sir Philip Green being called in to advise the government on reducing costs. (To no surprise at all, he suggested more pooling/bulk buying, not less)

                                                    You might notice that the Education Funding Agency doesn't seem on top of the situation. Massively expanded quango. Weren't these supposed to have been killed off?

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