What is an academy and what are the benefits?
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We want every school in the country to be part of a family of schools in a strong multi academy trust. But what are academies and what are the benefits of this plan?
The academies programme gives individual schools greater freedoms compared to local authority control. Being an academy gives schools the power to decide on the best curriculum for their pupils, determine how they spend their budgets, and much more.
What is an academy?
Academies are state-funded schools but they’re independent from local authorities meaning they aren’t run by councils. They can decide on their own curriculums, term dates, school hours and much more.
They’re still funded by the government but they get to decide how they spend their money, from how much they pay teachers to how much they spend on classroom equipment.
Over half of pupils are already educated in academies and there are three types:
- Converters – formerly council-run schools that chose to become academies; ...
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