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Hands Off Bournville School! Parents, teachers, students and the community are saying no to Academy status for Bournville School & Sixth Form Centre.

 Birmingham, UK
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Rachel Gooch@SchoolDuggery24 Mar 2013
Gove in the Mail is raving pantomime bit.ly/ZY0C7E but makes me feel like giving up.
I refuse to surrender to the Marxist teachers hell-bent on destroying our schools: Education...

I refuse to surrender to the Marxist teachers hell-bent on destroying our schools: Education...

Michael Gove speaks out against the 'Marxist' critics of his government's education policies. He writes that some teachers and academics want the education system to remain dumbed down.

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Alice Woolley@alicewoolley121 Jan 2013
Estelle Morris: only a few converter academies are fulfilling their commitment to support other schools gu.com/p/3d6d3/tw @guardianedu
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SaveDownhills 🧡@Save_Downhills22 Jan 2013
#Gove Forced #academies ? The politician, the parents & the carpetbaggers. Film screening London N15 31/1/13. Pls RSVP
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If the academies are really doing so well, why does the DfE need to distort the data? bit.ly/SxI4va
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Academies and Lies Official Trailer: youtu.be/ayP6I0Dkrsk via @youtube < Fantastic stuff
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Laura McInerney@miss_mcinerney23 Jan 2013
First Q: Where is the evidence that Academies & Free Schools were the right reform? // Gove: We have a problem with evidence in education
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SaveDownhills 🧡@Save_Downhills23 Jan 2013
Replying to @DerbyCityNEU
@CityofDerbyNUT Good luck with public meeting tonight.You might like to show this 2 minute trailer youtube.com/watch?v=ayP6I0Dk… No forced #academies
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Academies Comm: It's not lack of freedom that stops school innovation, its league tables & Ofsted: bit.ly/W0b3bE
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Cooperative Trusts - a useful clarification of a term that often means different things - especially in Brum wp.me/p2n8EN-2g
Cooperative Trusts

Cooperative Trusts

By Richard Hatcher There is a lot of misunderstanding about the term Cooperative Trust. One meaning is the Birmingham-wide umbrella partnership that the LA is trying to set up. This has no connecti…

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Are Forced Academisations Coming to an End? wp.me/p2n8EN-1n via @wordpressdotcom
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Birmingham Council Report on Academies &amp; the LA wp.me/p2n8EN-1u via @wordpressdotcom
Council Report on Academies & the LA

Council Report on Academies & the LA

A few months ago the Education Scrutiny Committee set up an Inquiry into academies and the changing role of the LA. Its report has just been published on the BCC website – it goes to Council …

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Birmingham Governors Vote Against Academy Conversion wp.me/p2n8EN-1s via @wordpressdotcom
Birmingham Governors Vote Against Academy Conversion

Birmingham Governors Vote Against Academy Conversion

St John Wall RC secondary school. After a recent joint union members’ meeting which passed a motion requesting the governors to make no further progress on Academy status, the governors of St…

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Birmingham CASE Update - Birmingham Schools Conference planned for 9th March wp.me/p2n8EN-1F via @wordpressdotcom
Birmingham CASE Update

Birmingham CASE Update

In November the founding meeting of Birmingham CASE – the Campaign for State Education –  supported by AABA, agreed to hold a Birmingham Conference on Education. The conference will be …

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Alliance Against Birmingham Academies public meeting

Alliance Against Birmingham Academies public meeting

The growth of Academies and the changing role of the local authority in Birmingham Tuesday 11 December 7pm The Council House, Birmingham The landscape of schooling in Birmingham is changing radical…

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Thomas@Thomas_Stringer28 Oct 2012
/ @_Dottie_Smith argues Gove’s Academies are profit centres not centres of pedagogy thebackbencher.co.uk/school-…
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Tes magazine@tes2 Nov 2012
Independents must sponsor academies. Their founding principles don't allow for anything else, says @teseditor ow.ly/eXWZk
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Rachel Gooch@SchoolDuggery2 Nov 2012
RT @miconm: And here is the link to the Academies Spend Data 2010/11. Fun for geeks! bit.ly/YcSK2V
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Askparentsfirst@Askparentsfirst4 Nov 2012
NEW: A CASE group for Brum - come along to the meeting on 27th November. Making the CASE for Education in Birmingham wp.me/p2mv48-8b

Making the CASE for Education in Birmingham

Education is undergoing unprecedented change at every phase from early years through primary and secondary to FE and beyond, and in every aspect from structure to curriculum. We need a forum in Bir…

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Phil Davis: Academies are Gove’s Maoist leap in the dark – and why I quit as a governor wp.me/p2n8EN-C via @wordpressdotcom
Phil Davis: Academies are Gove’s Maoist leap in the dark – and why I quit as a governor

Phil Davis: Academies are Gove’s Maoist leap in the dark – and why I quit as a governor

The Labour councillor laments 30 years of turmoil in our schools By: Philip Davis Published October 15, 2012, in Opinion on Chamberlain Files website With many Birmingham schools now forced to beco…

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Askparentsfirst@Askparentsfirst12 Sep 2012
BBC West Mids looking for parents with views on free school meals. Contact @bbcwmpolrep if interested. Please RT
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