Teachers are calling for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against plans to force every school in England to become an academy.
The National Union of Teachers says there is no evidence to show academy status will improve schools more rapidly than local authority schools.
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White Paper proposals:
- All schools in England to move to academy status
- New funding system designed to benefit disadvantaged areas
- Heads who take over struggling schools given a two-and-a-half-year reprieve from Ofsted inspections, to enable them to turn things around
- An end to the legal obligation for academies to have parents as governors in all schools
- A shake-up of governance, with a greater obligation to consult with parents
- Accreditation system for teacher training to be approved by head teachers - scrapping the current "qualified teacher status".