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10s of millions in taxpayers’ money ‘propping up’ badly managed academies

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Around 43 per cent of state-funded schools now operate as academies, educating over half of pupils in England across over 2,700 academy trusts, and the Department for Education (DfE) aims for all state-funded schools to become part of a family of academy trusts.

But in a report today the public accounts committee (PAC) says a lack of transparency in local academy financial information is harming parents’ ability to hold their local academy leaders and the DfE to account,

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