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Heads threaten strike action over academy plans
EB News: 03/05/2016 - 10:40
Head teachers at the NAHT conference have voted against government plans to force schools to become academies.
Some 95 per cent of delegates passed a motion that "no schools should be forced to become an academy" at the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) conference in Birmingham.
They voted to consider strike action as a “last resort”, after making a last-minute amendment to the motion.
The National Union of Teachers and Association of Teachers and Lecturers have also voted to put it on the table.
The union will also call for a public inquiry into the effect full academisation will have on England’s school system.
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