David Phillips

DfE White Paper to call for all schools to be in trusts Government announces target to halve disadvantage gap, along with plans for funding reform, a new progress measure and retention bonuses for heads

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Looking for a policy statement by ASCL, protecting not only its members in LA maintained schools but also defending the right of self-determination.
Can you help @ascl-uk.bsky.social ?

Another example of MAT central teams being clueless.
Give the money back to schools.

Every year since he died, I spoke to the school on Remembrance Day about one of our students who had joined up, been gravely injured in Afghanistan and died of his wounds.
Trump has never had class, honour or dignity. Those who hold a flag for him in the UK should hang their heads in shame.

This is such a shame that campaigning for this is still needed, eleven years after the wasted years report.

Ishould begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well, it’s never too late to say you were wrong. Robert Jenrick is not simply the most shameless man in parliament. He is the most shameless man in Britain, the most shameless man on Earth. Quite possibly the most shameless man in history. It is not simply that Jenrick has no shame. He is like a black hole for shame, sucking in the embarrassment of people around him. Which will be quite handy in his new party, Reform. Nothing became Jenrick’s time in the Conservative Party so much as the leaving of it. For years he had eased his way up the greasy pole, switching positions when necessary, a heating-seeking missile for whichever pose could help him advance, poster boy for the importance of self-belief over ability or integrity. And finally he was undone because he forgot to pick something up off a

Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...

Punished?

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Arthur Terry academy trust did no internal audit The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership did not conduct an internal audit last year despite deficits swelling to more than £8 million

Appalling mismanagement again in MATs. This experiment has proven nothing but incompetence and greed.
Arthur Terry academy trust did no internal audit
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Best job!

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

With OFSTED under scrutiny with new framework glitches, here's to the 10 yr anniversary of receiving a draft report for our provision with a 24hr turnaround.
Christmas Eve.
Here's to heads' mental health... @ofstednews.bsky.social @theguardian.com @tesmagazine.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social

Wanted to manipulate the KS intake data to give a different picture of progress but he was persuaded that this should not be done.

This was over 15 years ago.

Cheating has happened for a long time. I remember our principal completing parent OFSTED surveys in the days when they were paper based.

When you suddenly start caring about allegations of anti-semitism again

In which a CEO makes a bid for more centralisation and undoubtedly an increased salary.....
MATs have been an expensive failure.

😂

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

The extraordinary waste that has become ordinary in MATs
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Seen too much corruption in the academised sector.
It gets worse on and the new government doesn't show any signs of tackling it.

And complicit through failure @cstvoice.bsky.social

Trust broke rules over payments to CEO's mum Government probe finds trust breached rules over consultancy payments and £24k on training courses

When will DFE get a grip of this embedded exploitation by MAT CEOs?
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School apologises to parents over teacher's remarks about St George's flag Broadoak School in Partington has said it has launched an investigation following complaints by parents

Spineless school leadership hangs out teacher to dry.
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Rather patronising?

Experience demonstrates something entirely different.....

Perhaps if he spent less time on social media....
@leedon1982.bsky.social

New chair of governors seems to have blocked me....
Not easy to ask where responsibility lies.

Yes. No change then....

Just found the OFSTED report for my old school in Ibstock.
Sad to see RI in all areas. But not on school website and no reference to it. Is this a new thing?

Behaviour and attendance ambassadors appointed Tom Bennett and Jayne Lowe have been announced as the government’s national attendance and behaviour ambassadors

Behaviour declined under the previous tsar. Thank goodness we've got fresh blo....
Oh.
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