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Academy schools programme 'a spectacular failure'
Anti Academies Alliance speaks out as Ofsted seizes control of 10 schools from E-Act chain
England's school privatisation experiment should be “dead” after a failing academy chain was forced to surrender a third of its schools, the Anti Academies Alliance said yesterday.
E-Act, one of the biggest academy chains, will give up 10 of its 34 schools after Ofsted inspectors uncovered serious problems.
Alliance national secretary Alistair Smith called it “the most spectacular failure in British post-war education history.”
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