Surrey Mirror published Mixed emotions as academy status looms for East Surrey schools

BIG changes are in store for the majority of East Surrey schools after the Government's controversial announcement that all will be made into academies. Nationally, almost two-thirds of state secondary schools are now academies. However, only a third have so far converted in East Surrey, and no schools in Reigate or Redhill have yet taken the step. The Government's surprise plan to remove all schools from local authority control within six years, detailed in a white paper published last...

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