Summary
England's poorest-performing secondary schools are to be given an ultimatum to improve or face closure, merger or transformation into independent academies.
Local authorities will be told in the coming week that they have until the start of the summer holidays - about 50 days - to produce detailed action plans to turn around the 638 secondary schools which are failing to reach minimum standards for GCSE passes.See the full content of this document
Extract
Improve or Face Closure, Schools Told ; Education
Under the National Challenge plan, the schools will have until 2011 the target of 30 per cent or more pupils getting at least five GCSEs at grade C or above or face "formal intervention", ...
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