September 2005 The Times reported that:
"Bad schools to close after a year - The ultimatum, to be announced in a speech by Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, raises the stakes for struggling schools by halving the length of time that they have to raise standards. The Government said last year that poor schools would be identified and replaced with city academies, as part of a programme to create 200 such institutions by 2010....
She will tell the Local Government Association that, from September next year, schools said by Ofsted not to have improved after a year could be shut. They may be reopened under new leadership, told to form links with a successful school nearby or closed outright."
On Monday The Times reported that:
"Headteachers from grammar schools are to take over the management of failing schools in their area under plans for reform in England.
State grammar schools, which as a group outperformed independent schools in the national A-level results last year, will be expected to form “super trusts” in which they link up with a struggling secondary modern school together with either a business, voluntary organisation or local authority. "
Today theBBC reports that:
"Almost one in five secondary schools in England is to be given a warning to improve exam results or face closure."
It's all spin, smoke and mirrors. Is there really any new money or is all just re-announcements? This Labour government is disappearing into a fog of spin, spin and more spin.
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