- Target:
- Cllr Sean Brennan, Paul Burstow MP, Tom Brake MP and Michael Gove MP
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.stopacademiesinsutton.co.uk
The leaderships of the secondary schools in the London Borough of Sutton are moving towards a mass conversion to academy status in the near future. The government is enticing schools to convert with ideas such as freedom over budgets, policies, extra funding.
These are assurances with caveats, offers with small print, and there is a real and severe risk that the quality of education for children in the Borough will suffer now and in the future if these conversions go ahead. Conversion does not assure a school's future, it places overall control in the hands of central government and removes all local accountability.
We, the undersigned, call on our local MPs and the Secretary of State for Education to take action to ensure that the education system in Sutton retains its high levels of quality and availability to local children.
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The Keep Sutton Schools Local petition to Cllr Sean Brennan, Paul Burstow MP, Tom Brake MP and Michael Gove MP was written by Michael Craven and is in the category Education at GoPetition.