No to Forced Academies
6:30pm, Wednesday 6th April at Friends Meeting House, Brighton.
Find out about the Government’s plan to dismantle state education provision and hand every school to private academy chains. Hear from local teachers and parent campaigns against academies and help plan a campaign to keep our schools as good local authority schools with parents represented on governing bodies.
Background: Thousands of parents and teachers in Brighton & Hove have already signed national petitions against the Government’s proposals to ignore the wishes of parents, head teachers and their staff, school governors and elected councillors and force schools out of their local authority families of schools to become academies.
These proposals include the abolition of places for parents on school governing bodies and ignore the wealth of evidence that shows that forcing schools to become academies does not improve schools at all.
Most Brighton & Hove local authority community schools are good and popular and all are improving. Parents, teachers and governors have not chosen to take their schools out of the local authority or to convert their schools to academies.
All welcome.
Link to the petitions: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124747 and https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124702
More information about the event and the local campaign for education here
https://campaignforeducation.wordpress.com/