18 June 2008

Stop New Labour's divisive school academy plans

Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

LABOUR'S 'IMPROVE or close' ultimatum to 638 English schools is a thinly disguised plan to accelerate the privatisation of secondary education. Under their "National Challenge Strategy", schools that have failed to meet the imposed minimum target, Martin Powell-Davies, secretary, Lewisham National Union of Teachers (NUT) writes.

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6 December 2007

No to academy schools!

Lewisham demonstration against destructive school policies, photo Paul Mattsson

HUNDREDS OF teachers from across north-west England demonstrated in Manchester on 1 December against the government's continuing drive to impose academy (publicly funded independent) schools on local communities... By Jane Nellist, Coventry NUT

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11 October 2007

Beat back the profiteers

A CONSORTIUM of the three teaching unions, the GMB and Unison recently held a successful public meeting against the conversion of seven of Birmingham's secondary schools into academies... By Clive Walder, Birmingham Socialist Party

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24 May 2007

Academies: No to these divisive schools

As Brown and Cameron back academies...: ANYBODY WHO thought that Gordon Brown would halt the government's relentless drive to create 400 divisive Academy schools, over 200 of them by 2010, will be sorely disappointed...

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26 April 2007

Huddersfield: Fighting against NHS cuts and closures

Ian Slattery, Huddersfield Save our NHS candidate

Huddersfield Socialist Party has been involved in a number of local battles against cuts and privatisation, and is now helping to develop the various campaigns further through fighting for anti-cuts candidates in the 3 May lo...

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4 April 2007

Labour's market policies damage education

Growing inequality in schools: A DECADE ago, Tony Blair famously announced that "education, education, education" would be his top priority...

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22 March 2007

Keep the market out of education!

Lincolnshire: LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY council proposes to spend up to £50 million transforming three local schools into 'city academies'...

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18 January 2007

Academies myths

THE FOLLOWING letter by Ian Page and Chris Flood, the two councillors on Lewisham council's Socialist Party group, was sent to the Education Guardian....

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7 December 2006

Fight Blair's divisive academy programme

IN A speech last week Blair announced that his pet academy schools programme would double from the 200 schools planned by 2010 to 400...

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13 July 2006

Parents win High Court victory

Education: THE CAMPAIGN Against Academies in Merton (CAAM) has won an important first victory in the High Court in the first of three test cases over the government's divisive academy schools proposals...

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