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Barking and Dagenham parents to get vote on Michael Gove academies swoop
Unions celebrate council support for referendum on schools takeover
Parents of children at a London school threatened with forced academisation received ballot papers yesterday for a landmark referendum on Tory privatisation bullying.
Barking and Dagenham Council are polling parents over whether the Dorothy Barley primary school should be run by education privateer REAch2.
The vote was iniated by councillors earlier this month after protests from parents who are furious about the forced takeover.
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