Another of Mr Gove's pet projects seems to be in difficulties. Academies were supposed to raise standards, and more importantly take them into private ownership (well trusts) that were out of the control of local authorities. Instead they are still poor schools, run by well meaning, but hopelessly useless ex-Local Authority Officers with no business acumen, as in this case. They have had disproportionately more money spent on them so they are a poor deal for the taxpayer, and standards are no better than the local authority controlled schools they replaced.
// An academy chain in charge of running six state schools became the first in the country to fold today - forcing a sudden hunt for new sponsors to take them over.
The Prospects Academies Trust, which runs six schools in Paignton, Bexhill and Gloucestershire, was one of 14 chains told by the Government it could not take on any new schools because of concerns over standards.
Two of the schools it ran were in “special measures”, having been declared “inadequate” by education standards watchdog Ofsted.//
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/first-academy-chain-closes-leaving-the-fates-of-six-schools-in-the-balance-9398957.html
Do you agree that our children deserve better than this fiasco of a failed policy?