This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Make all public schools academies if all state schools have to be.
Osborne's budget has set out a plan to make all state schools into academies. This petition objects to this in the strongest terms and, to equal the playing field, calls on the government to subject all citizens to the same rules should the worst case scenario happen.
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Academies open up a path for headteachers to be fully in charge of budgets; headteachers are not accountants and should not be given these duties. They open up a path for teaching staff not to need PGCE qualifications, which are prerequisites for a reason. There's no evidence that academisation necessarily improves teaching quality, so this policy is an enormous waste of time, money and effort. If this policy is enacted, we ask that public schools aren't exempted- for the sake of equality.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Academies are schools funded by the state. You can read the full definition of an academy here:
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/academies
It's not clear what it would mean for a private school to become an academy. If you would like a specific change to the law which governs how private schools are regulated, you could start a petition calling for a specific change.
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