Well I'm *shocked*, shocked I tell you.
Headline: "Council-maintained #Schools in England outperforming academies in #Ofsted ratings."
Byline: "Research for Local Government Association renews questions over government’s ‘academisation’ policy."
When I was a governor a few years back there was a period where the Government were considering forcing all schools to become academies. We spend a significant amount of time going through the likely impact, which in our individual case would have been positive on paper, but discounted the benefits derived from being part of a wider, local educational community.