Digging around in the undergrowth of schools reform in England Warwick Mansell's news and analysis site
Tory donor’s academy chain in line to swallow up second Tory donor’s academy chain
Academy chains taking over the free schools project
Primary school puts on hold plans to academise following legal challenge
Academy trust advertised cleaning contract for incoming school – weeks before its governors approved it joining
A look at how governance structures handed near-complete control of two groups of state-funded schools to wealthy academy sponsors
Trust sponsored by Tory donor scales back its activities following Presidents Club investigation
Man in the spotlight: Dr Matthew Laban
Local MP intervened against seemingly popular local option in forced academy case, FOI disclosures show
Forced academy takeover a “risk”, minutes show government decision-maker conceding
Details emerge of former minister’s academy trust’s vision to “embed” knowledge curriculum in its primaries
Rolling news blog, week of January 21st
Revealed: the schools which escaped academisation following “requires improvement” Ofsted judgements
Tory peer involved in discussions about school, now lined up for his academy trust, with three Department for Education ministers, DfE discloses
