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School staff reject academy plans
STAFF at a school in north-west London are set to strike today over controversial plans for it to be turned into an academy.
The Village school in Kingsbury would become part of a Multi Academy Trust, following wider government plans that force schools that are deemed to be failing to become academies.
The Tories, under David Cameron in 2016, originally planned legislation for every school in England to be converted but U-turned on the idea following a furious backlash.
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