'Overwhelming' response to Gove's academy offer
By Janaki Mahadevan Wednesday, 02 June 2010
More than 1,000 schools have applied to become academies just one week after Education Secretary Michael Gove wrote to all primary and secondary schools inviting them to join the academies programme.
In total, 1,114 schools have applied for academy status, which would give them the power to be free of local authority control.
Of these, 626 are schools judged as "outstanding", 273 are primary schools and 52 are special schools.
Publishing the numbers, Gove said: "I believe that head teachers and teachers know best how to run schools, not local bureaucrats or politicians. That's why last week I wrote to every school in the country inviting them to take up academy freedoms if they wished to do so. The response has been overwhelming."
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