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Tories U-turn on forced academies
Resistance of teachers, parents and MPs pays off as Morgan admits no love for key policy
EDUCATION Secretary Nicky Morgan announced yesterday that her flagship plans to force all schools to become academies had been scuppered.
The embarrassing U-turn follows almost two months of heated resistance from teachers, parents, Labour and even fellow Tory MPs.
Her scheme to force around 17,000 English schools to accept academy status were originally published in Chancellor George Osborne’s March Budget.
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