Lilac Sky scandal: 拢3m of 鈥榗ontentious, irregular or improper鈥� payments revealed Government investigation ‘outcome’ report comes eight years after intervention, but contains just three pages and few details
Trust to close after losing 拢4m council legal row Parallel Learning Trust’s six schools are to be handed to other trusts but it’s unclear who will pick up the tab for any remaining deficit
Big academy trusts see more kids leave their schools Council schools also disproportionately take in vulnerable pupils from other schools, study finds
EdCity: The community inclusion HQ with schools at its heart Ark Schools teams up with Hammersmith and Fulham council to turn a run-down playground into a new community
Does Labour have an academies problem? DfE officials mull letting councils open schools again as they tackle two-tier system
Q and A: Becky Francis on the problems her curriculum review is trying to solve Schools Week speaks to curriculum review chair Becky Francis as a call for evidence is launched …
Trust boss: Time to review ‘archaic’ teaching hours limit Lift Schools chief executive says ‘we can’t continue to rigidly count hours if we want to be seen as a profession’
Labour promises to publish Lilac sky academy scandal investigation 鈥� but won鈥檛 give a date But it is keeping quiet on when the report, kept secret for years by the Conservatives, will surface
The immovable schools minister Former minister Nick Gibb reflects on why politicians have a duty to interfere, warns against trying to please everyone – and reveals he was planning to force schools to follow the trad rules in classrooms