David Phillips

😂

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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When lovely people meet each other...😁😁😁

New David Ross trust CEO 'no longer able to take role' MAT reveals Julian Appleyard will not take over as CEO as planned after 'change in personal circumstances'

Dreadful organisation.
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@rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social Any comment on the story in the i paper about your contribution to homelessness?

Academy admission appeals cash cut hits 'successful schools' DfE won't fund academies to fight appeals heard after October 31 of this year, it confirms

We funded our own appeals as a popular maintained school. It is about time there was a level playing field! @cstvoice.bsky.social
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BBC News - School suspensions rise to nearly a million in England
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20 academy CEOs appointed to DfE advisory group United Learning, Lift Schools, Ark and Star bosses among those appointed to advise government

Let's hope this doesn't result in further carving up of the state sector.
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Dreadful response.

Teachers strike after Jamaican staff 'targeted' at south London school Teachers at a school in Beckenham have complained about being ‘severely overworked to the point of exhaustion’

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Too many chiefs? The debate over MATs having joint CEOs With two multi-academy trust mergers proposing a dual-CEO leadership model, Dan Worth investigates how common this approach is - and whether it can really work

"So, leaders running a school isn't enough. Let's add a whole range of expensive central teams and cream off money through top slicing."
Some MATs: "Hold my beer..."
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I understand what Donald Trump cares about, says Keir Starmer The prime minister says he found common ground with President Trump as both "really care about family".

He's completely lost it now.
BBC News - I understand what Trump cares about, says Starmer
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Exam boards consider ‘action’ over social media predictions A quarter of teachers say they have heard of pupils buying so-called 'predicted' papers

Wise schools are already on top of the fake news / exam chancers influence.
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DfE asks MAT leaders to join new advisory group Minister Catherine McKinnell is establishing the group, set to meet for the first time in July

Advisory groups should represent the whole sector. Not just a shouty group.
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More and more scripts coming up with some nonsense from a Mr Everything English.
Schools need to have something in place to stop students relying on chancers.

It's really not hard to sort this.
Extend breaks and lunches and give staff and students a proper break.

Tom Bennett to apply to be government's new behaviour ambassador The former government behaviour advisor and lead of the behaviour hubs programme is set to reapply for the renamed behaviour hub "ambassador" position

The general consensus is that behaviour is worse after years of this post holder.
Why on earth would this be a good idea?
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Watching #MerchantofVenice tonight
Great performance by Makram Khoury!